Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...home community was "a good 98 percent" Latino, she says. "Back home you interchange English and Spanish without thinking about it...it was some sort of culture shock" to come to Harvard...
...surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...
Because starving bodies are so severely disrupted, it takes more than good meals to restore them. In fact, too much food too suddenly can kill victims by triggering shock. The process of refeeding, which in Somalia will take place mainly in huge feeding camps, usually starts with fluids to counter dehydration. Then comes a high-calorie, high-protein mixture such as the U.S. government's Unimix, made of ground beans, ground rice or corn, sugar and vegetable oil. This is given in frequent, small meals so that the out-of- practice digestive tract can handle it. Severely malnourished children...
...feature pictures of famous African-American artists, scientists and writers, and there is a clear, though unspoken, sense of pride that it is blacks helping blacks reclaim this troubled community. But there are many teachers who knew little of the inner city before arriving here. "It was a culture shock even for me," says second-grade teacher Avis Watts, who was raised in the Virginia countryside, and whose parents taught college. Now she appreciates just how critical the school is to the children. "This is their lifeline really," she says. "They know they'll be fed, loved and everything else...
There is nothing quite like stepping out of a limousine to the utter shock and amazement of your friends, who cannot for their lives figure out what the hell you are doing on that side of the door. I highly recommend...