Word: numb
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Among the biggest pro-pot players, medical marijuana was actually kind of a ruse. Sure, there are sick people who really feel they need marijuana to numb pain, relieve the eye pressure of glaucoma, calm muscle spasms or get the munchies to help with AIDS wasting (see following story). But they are not the people who put the debate into high gear. A few years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance--an organization founded by billionaire philanthropist Soros, who wants to legalize marijuana and reform drug laws by replacing jail time with rehab--decided it would fund only those initiatives that...
...rendering them always in the same red outlines, in the same positions, with the same plastered-on false smiles, Rees channels the numb fear of mass denial. In doing so he evokes a nation of terrified people eagerly complying with any policy that could potentially obliterate the original source of their fear. But their dialogue is anything but the party line...
...explain: I hated being in Jenin. I was numb with the sadness of turning away dozens of workers every day who wanted to sneak across the closed border only to bring home some food. But my soldiers and I also stopped three terrorists from shooting civilians to death in Afula. I know I saved lives without ever pulling a trigger. It is hard to imagine, but sometimes the Palestinians we refused entry into Israel would stay around for a while, and we would share our dinner with them, and we’d talk about a future where they?...
...Andujar - Miguel Delibes, head of the Doñana Biological Research Station in Seville, fears the yellow-eyed predator could be the first big cat to face extinction in more than 2,000 years. Species on the brink of obliteration are so common that it is easy to be numb to such news. Indeed, the I.U.C.N. threatened-species list contains more than 11,000 endangered animals, birds and insects, 121 of which are new to the list since 2000. But not all the news is bad. In the last two years scientists have discovered at least two creatures once thought...
...Sept. 11, Sana and her mother watched the little TV by the bed in numb horror. First the dissolving towers, then the furious retaliation: Muslim-owned shops in the U.S. being trashed and burned, Arab-looking cabbies dragged from their cars and beaten. "We were both in shock," recalls Sana, who telephoned her brother, a student in Ann Arbor, Mich., that first night to make sure...