Word: phenomenonal
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...recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children's Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon - what they believed was a new form of self-injury among teens and adolescents. Eleven out of 505 patients whom the team had treated in more than a decade had inserted objects - from chunks of crayons to unfolded paper clips - under their skin in a behavior the Nationwide team labeled "self-embedding...
...from Italy," etc. When you ask a youngster what she dreams of being, she will say, "I want to be a nurse, so I can go abroad." The outflow of Filipino workers is about supply and demand. It is about globalization and economic growth. I just hope that this phenomenon is temporary and our country does not find it has been forced to destroy the fabric of family life. Lisa Crisostomo, Rillaar, Belgium...
...recession when your neighbor loses his job," Harry Truman once quipped. "It's a depression when you lose yours." What Reich and Morici seemed to be groping for - other than media exposure (mission accomplished!) - was a way to express that the current downturn may be a more serious phenomenon than other recessions of the post-World War II era. (See pictures of the recession...
...Lampoon in 1973, Downey joined the writing team at SNL in its second season and has continued writing for the show on and off throughout the intervening years, holding the head writer position in the 1980s. Downey says that at its inception, the live comedy show became a phenomenon because no one had ever done anything like it before. “Doing the show for the first five seasons was a kind of otherworldly experience,” he says. “The show was so hot, way more than it deserved to be. It?...
...differences affect the way people act—even the way some fly planes. Colombians have a “high index of power distance,” according to Gladwell, which is a term from cross-cultural psychology describing the hesitancy of underlings to question superiors. This cultural phenomenon caused the Colombian co-pilot to speak timidly to the air traffic control booth’s gruff New Yorker. Even as the plane was running out of gas and was in grave danger of crashing, the Colombian co-pilot did not assert the need for the plane to land...