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...episode when she and her teammates had to pick up live snakes and bite their bodies (gently). Kim was so frightened that her trainer had to hold the snake while she did the biting. A colleague, initially thinking the snake was rubber, slung it around her neck. She was about to kiss it when it flicked out its tongue. Says Kim: "She completely freaked out." So have some of Korea's sports doctors, who are appalled at the drills, which they say add to the stress top athletes endure. Says Han Myung Woo, an expert on sports psychology at Sunmoon...
...cigarette companies formed the Tobacco Industry Research Committee to scrutinize the effects of cigarettes, so now are wireless companies commissioning similar studies on cell phones. Just as a hacking cough is today the sign of a misspent, rebellious youth, so will that tell-tale tumor behind your neck a half-century from now be the sign of a college career spent huddled outside the brick-and-ivy, talking loudly into your cell phone to be heard over the din of everyone else doing the same...
...moments of crisis, school administrators draw up action plans--snow-emergency routes, fire-safety drills and, most recently, school-shooting lockdowns. Last week Scott Feder, principal of Dutch Neck Elementary School in Princeton Junction, N.J., installed a three-part "grieving plan" to console a kindergartner whose father never came home from work Sept. 11. There was only one problem. Though the newspaper and other students reported the man had perished, the family was still holding out hope. The young girl had been told that "Daddy's going to be home very late...
...drama is extraordinarily high, and Steve Cosson, directing from a script by Peter Morris, achieves moments of intense emotion that wrench audiences in the theater and leave them with provocative images that linger. In the most shattering scene, a school boy stands stark naked on a chair with his neck in a noose, his body shaking violently with fear...
...which has sent 30 crew members and 12 pieces of equipment to the site, including one 345 Excavator, his men remove the body parts by hand. Already he has found a severed hand with a wedding band on it. One of his employees pulled out a fire fighter whose neck was snapped so badly he was looking backward. Another employee temporarily lost it Friday morning after finding a dead infant strapped into a car seat in a driverless vehicle...