Word: numbing
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...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...
...part, Ginny was going through the motions but nothing more. Friends and relatives, who had colonized the house, were propping her up like a marionette and pulling her through the paperwork mill. "I was numb, hollow," says Ginny upon several months' reflection. "I was just completely terrified, terrified of living the rest of my life without George--still am, but in the beginning I couldn't do a thing...
...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...
STEP 2: RECOGNIZE THE SYMPTOMS. Dry eyes, back aches, wrist cramping and numb fingers are signs that you are spending too much time at the keyboard...