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School psychologists, most of whom are trained in learning disabilities or family problems, often summon specialists to deal with students' "post- traumatic stress syndrome." Teachers and parents, experts say, need to bring fears immediately to the surface after a shooting or other violent episode and allow younger students in particular to act out and talk out the horrors they experienced. Adults are shaken as well. At the Greenwood, S.C., school, Principal Eleanor Rice lost 25 lbs. in the months after a 19-year-old man barged in, shooting at random, killed two pupils and wounded nine other people...
...Underutilization means that the University employs fewer women or minorities in a particular job classification than would be reasonably expected given the proportion of these minorities in the pool of qualified candidates. Harvard's worsening faculty representation is inexcusable...
Shklar discussed the reasons the Germans followed Hitler. She paid particular attention to Hitler's ability to communicate and his mastery of the radio. In addition, the prospect of winning a new war seemed both possible and desirable to many Germans, Shklar said...
...which made last Tuesday's election returns so much the sweeter. Speaking to the Boston Globe, chairman of the Democratic National Committee Ron Brown called the election results "a slam-dunk for the Democratic Party." He was referring to a series of nationwide party victories--in particular, in Virginia, New York, and New Jersey...
Zuromskis also said that cases have been reported in which people inoculated between 1967 and 1980 had developed measles, despite the belief that that particular vaccine was fully effective. "People who had proper vaccine got measles. It is possible that a small number of people got a vaccine that may have been less that 100 percent effective," he said...