Word: shaken
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...early, and having split from his wife and son, is now living in a state of isolation and emotional shutdown in a fancy house in Los Angeles. One day Richard suffers an intense, mysterious pain and is rushed to a hospital. The doctors find nothing, but he's sufficiently shaken to conduct a review of his life and how he's living it: "He couldn't cover everything up anymore, he needed to feel everything...
...reconstruct mental images of what the Big Easy once had been.ANOTHER KIND OF TRAUMAResearch suggests that trauma is not confined to the immediate victims of a disaster. Relief workers and volunteers—the second wave of people on the scene——are often shaken as well.Professor of Psychology Richard J. McNally cited studies showing how rescue workers or firefighters were affected by terrorist acts like Sept. 11 or the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings.“If you’re just witnessing the carnage and the physical destruction of the city, that...
...most catastrophic consequences of a big earthquake in the Bay Area, says University of California at Davis geologist Jeffrey Mount, would be the failure of the delta's aging levee system, which protects not just farmland and residential areas but also the water supply for some 23 million people. Shaken hard enough, the foundations of the levees would crumple, and in a kind of hydrological chain reaction, brackish water from the Bay would surge inland, contaminating the freshwater that aqueducts carry all the way to Los Angeles...
...Francisco coastline? What if it had started farther south, so that instead of breaking away from the city it had aimed right toward it? What if it had started farther north and broken south? In the first instance, the tentative answer is that San Francisco gets shaken even harder; in the second, it's Silicon Valley and the Livermore Valley that find themselves clamped in the lion's jaws. "1906 is the most powerful earthquake we can imagine hitting Northern California," says Mary Lou Zoback, head of the USGS Northern California Earthquake Hazards Program. "But it may not have been...
...still-shaken hostage, a mouse of a man unable to look a Western female television interviewer in the eye nor shake her hand, there was no sense of a holy place. Grabbed at a Baghdad hospital while visiting a brother being treated for gunshot wounds, he said his captors initially told him they were intelligence officers from the Ministry of Interior, a department Western officials privately claim is stacked with Iranian-backed militia forces...