Word: mentality
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gobi March, to raise money for the Save the Children Foundation. But most, like 60-year-old American Robyn Metcalf, who has done two desert races, are there to "combine sports with the opportunity to see other parts of the world, while also meeting people who are extending their mental and physical boundaries...
...During the postwar years, the city's Jewish population dwindled to nearly zero, as Jews fled the Chinese Revolution and sought homes in newly founded Israel or elsewhere. In the following decades, the Ohel Moishe became a factory and later a mental hospital before the local government recognized its historical significance. "This space preserves the memory of that time," says Andrea Zilberszac, an Austrian visitor whose relatives fled to Shanghai during World War II. "It reminds us not to forget...
...turn this unease into dark comedy by portraying a hapless Tube driver who tries to exploit a (fictional) loophole in his contract that grants him early retirement if he witnesses three suicides from his train. The film misjudged the nation's mood and was savaged by film critics, mental-health workers and the train drivers' union, whose members picketed outside the premiere of the movie. Their placards declared that suicides on the Tube were no laughing matter...
...News of the World's defense crumbled when Woman E, a prostitute married to an agent of MI5, Britain's domestic investigation service, failed to show up in court. Her lawyer cited her "emotional and mental state." She had filmed the 5-hr. orgy with a secret camera and had been interviewed for an article titled "Exclusive: Mosley Hooker Tells All: My Nazi Orgy With F1 Boss." She had been expected to testify that Mosley specifically asked the women to facilitate a Nazi-themed sex romp. The other four prostitutes, one of whom is a Ph.D. candidate, all denied that...
...Connor disputed what she called the court majority's ''ad hoc nullification'' of a state regulation. Government intervention in deeply personal decisions was also central to the Baby Doe ruling. Baby Doe ws an infant boy born in 1982 suffering from Down's syndrome, a congenital condition characterized by mental retardation. An Indiana hospital let him starve to death after his parents decided to forgo surgery to remove an obstruction in his esophagus. Profoundly upset by the news, President Reagan ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to prevent all further instances of calculated neglect. In 1983 the department...