Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...packed plots, his innocent heroes (the line from Garp to Gump is not hard to draw) and his overt, Dickensian sympathy for damaged or endangered children. Critics retort that Irving's heart may be in the right place, but his head is not -- that he actually exploits for shock value the very characters whose welfare he pretends to champion...
...accident must have come as a horrifying shock, even for an experienced scientist. One minute, a sample was spinning in a high-speed centrifuge. Then, suddenly, the container cracked, and the sample -- tissue contaminated by a rare, potentially lethal virus -- spattered the inside of the centrifuge. Fortunately, the Yale University researcher working with the deadly germs was wearing a lab gown, latex gloves and a mask, as required under federal guidelines. He also knew the proper procedure for dealing with a deadly spill: rub every surface with bleach, sterilize all instruments that have been exposed, then wipe everything down again...
...carefully enough. Sabia and several related viruses -- Junin, Machupo and Guanarito in South America and Lassa in Africa, all members of the arenavirus family -- are particularly frightening because they can kill in such a grisly way. Characteristic symptoms are high fever, uncontrolled bleeding in virtually every organ and finally shock. The liver turns yellow and decomposes. Blood can leak from literally every bodily orifice, including the eyes and the pores of the skin...
...kicked off the modern civil rights movement in America with her refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man, is under police protection after she was assaulted and robbed in her Detroit home Tuesday night. Parks, 81, suffered only minor injury, but the beating has sent shock waves through the African-American community. Her assailant was allegedly black...
...argues that isolating Castro is the best way to make him democratize, adopt market reforms and compensate Americans for property seized during the revolution. Other countries trade freely with Havana and have long , since struck compensation deals for their own seized assets. But with Cuba's economy in sugar shock -- the yields in cane fields have slumped to levels not seen since the 1920s -- the embargo's boosters hope it will break Castro's back. "Ending the embargo is his No. 1 foreign policy priority," says a U.S. official. And what Castro wants, Washington opposes...