Word: peanuts
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...effects of an errant allergen may be, it pains me to realize that if I were going to school now, instead of 20 years ago, my childhood lunchtime memories would have been hugely altered. For 13 years, I carried a brown bag to school, which always contained my beloved peanut-butter-and-honey sandwich. Day in and day out, I ate my peanut butter. And I enjoyed it every single day. And nobody bothered to tell me I was consuming the edible equivalent of an anthrax bomb...
...collected online www.phobialist.com) where more than 500 increasingly quirky human fears are labeled, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, and cataloged alphabetically. Some have more to do with neology than psychology. (It's one thing to invent a word like arachibutyrophobia, another thing to find someone who's really afraid of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.) Other phobias, however--like acrophobia (fear of heights), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) and agoraphobia (a crushing, paralyzing terror of anything outside the safety of the home)--can be deadly serious business...
...peanut seller sits on the edge of Thankot village square outside Kathmandu. She's 33 and dressed in cast-off clothes from her customers and friends. At the end of each day she goes home to a tiny room she cannot afford?it costs her $2 a month. She owes a year's rent and earns just enough to buy food. Devika Khadka Chhetri is illiterate; her family was too poor to send her to school and she was married off at the age of 18. It was a bad marriage. Her fault in her husband's eyes was that...
Cost is one barrier. Medicare does not cover hearing aids, nor do most private insurers. Hearing aids range in price from $500 to $3,000 or more. "Here's this thing that's the size of a peanut," says Nicolette Toussaint, 49, communications director for a San Francisco nonprofit organization, "and it costs as much as a used car." Toussaint got her first hearing aid more than 15 years ago. It lasted 10 years--until she left it in the pocket of a pair of jeans she threw into the wash. The replacement cost $4,000. For many people...
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