Word: panic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Jennifer shuttled by car service across New York City's Central Park between her divorced parents' apartments and traveled by chartered bus to a prep school where kids rated one another according to their family cars. "In the eighth grade I had panic attacks," says Jennifer, now 18. "That's when your stomach goes up and you can't leave the bathroom and you get sweaty and you get headaches and the world closes in on you." Her world eventually narrowed so far that for several weeks she could not set foot outside her home...
Children express the panic and anxiety they feel in myriad ways: in massive weight gains or losses, in nightmares and disturbed sleep, in fatigue or listlessness, in poor grades or truancy, in continual arguing or fighting, in drinking or drug abuse, in reckless driving or sexual promiscuity, in stealing and mugging. A fairly typical history among disturbed kids, says Dr. L. David Zinn, co-director of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's Adolescent Program, includes difficulty in school at age eight or nine, withdrawal from friends and family and persistent misbehavior at 10 or 11 and skipping school...
...precursor. The prediction, which has made its way into several newspapers, was the work of Iben Browning, a New Mexico climate consultant, who based his forecast on an analysis of the gravitational pull of the sun and moon. Many seismologists, worried that public concern could degenerate into panic, have denounced it as unscientific hocus-pocus. At the same time, they agree that the New Madrid fault, which stretches over 225 km (140 miles), poses serious long-term risks, especially to the nearby cities of Memphis and St. Louis...
...about to happen, the man tried to persuade the sentry to allow him and his family to leave in peace. But the sentry cooly threatened that if she did not exit the car, he would kill one of her children. The husband was then accosted by some other soldiers. Panic-stricken, she got out of the car, and was brutally raped in front of her husband and children. By the magnanimity of the Iraqi government, they were then allowed to go in "peace...
...most critical problem in the camps. Jordanian officials say they are supplying water as quickly as they can, but it is simply not fast enough. Dozens of men holding buckets gather around a dry water hose attached to a water tank, their faces expressing a fear just short of panic. "Please, we've been standing here for nine hours waiting for water," says Romis Ali, 45, a Bangladeshi who worked at the Meridien Hotel in Kuwait City. Ali, in his second week at the camp, hasn't had anything to drink in 20 hours. He had his last meal...