Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...found discrete locations in the brain of an intricate system that serves, among other things, as the human moral compass. Largely in the prefrontal cortex, it is where reason is applied to complex social situations, where our personal scales of justice do their weighing. It may come as a shock that this highest, most spiritual faculty is just as identifiable and in some ways as physically vulnerable as, say, a knee joint. But vulnerable it is. One's moral fiber can literally snap. For it was just such a rupture that led the researchers to their discovery...
...relation to the Japanese yen. Twenty-five years ago, a $1 bill was worth 360 yen. Today it's worth only 100 yen, and at one point last Tuesday it dropped below 100. The most common affliction of U.S. travelers to Tokyo is not jet lag. It's sticker shock. For people who pay in dollars, the top hotels are so expensive, they ought to offer mortgages...
...restraining order seemed only to provoke his rage. On Memorial Day, he trailed her to a shopping-mall parking garage and looped a rope around her neck. He dragged her along the cement floor and growled, "If I can't have you, no one will." Bystanders watched in shock. But no one intervened...
Eros attributes some of his editorial brashness to his days as a student activist in Germany and Britain, where he was schooled in engineering and filmmaking. When he returned to Indonesia in 1981 after 12 years abroad, he got a massive case of culture shock as he confronted opposition to his Western-inculcated ideas. "I was so overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman...
Tesma Elezovic, 45, was on her way home in Braunschweig, Germany, in January 1993, when she came face to face with a man who had forced her and fellow Muslims to flee the town of Kozarac in May 1992. "I was in shock," she says. "This man had his gun on my son's neck the whole way through the journey...