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Bonnie Halper was banging out advertising and publicity copy for RCA Records 2 1/2 years ago when she felt a tingling in her right pinky. Not knowing what caused it, Halper kept right on typing. Within half an hour her right hand and arm were numb. In less than a month, she was effectively disabled on both sides -- unable to turn a doorknob, tie her shoelaces, button her clothes or brush her teeth without excruciating pain...
...saturated by the irresponsibility of the media that I'm beyond being outraged. I'm almost numb to it at this point. It's outrageous. It's irresponsible." Superior Court Judge Lance Ito at Thursday's court session of the O.J. Simpson case after he accused the media of inaccurately reporting DNA test results...
Even so, Castro seems thoroughly in control. The ability of many Cubans to describe harrowing privation and in almost the same breath profess loyalty to Fidel -- or at worst a kind of numb resignation -- is startling. Raise, 31, an engineer, pauses along the Almendares River in western Havana to watch the return of several rafts that had tried to make it across the Straits of Florida but were forced by bad weather to turn back. "These people are out of their minds," he says. "This is a difficult period of the revolution, but I wouldn't even think about doing...
...plan needs some corrections and I hope this spurs some thought on what liberal education is. But, students would take this track fully informed that this is only an introduction and by no means comprehensive. Students would knowingly give up some of their social lives and their fingers might numb from writing up to 50 pages per semester (with rewrites, of course). These six courses would exempt students from Lit and Arts, Moral Reasoning and perhaps two electives or two non-science cores...
...That is when I went numb," Ntshanga recalls...