Word: shock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rogerses still refuse to acknowledge that Rebecca isn't genetically one of theirs. Blame it on shell shock: on July 21, only 2 1/2 weeks after the accident, the hospital told them Rebecca wasn't their granddaughter. Perhaps foreshadowing a lawsuit, the Rogerses say hospital officials cruelly ignored their grief. Linda says a pediatrician called her at the Wal-Mart pharmacy, where she works, to tell her he had news about Rebecca he had to relay in person. Later a doctor showed up with a syringe, asking for Rebecca's blood for a DNA test. (Hospital officials believe Rebecca...
...Gore, who has spent each month since April staging photo-ops on climate data, lost no time in sharing his shock and dismay at this new world record. "Running for President on the weather is a novel strategy," says TIME Deputy Washington Bureau chief Jef McAllister, "but Gore seems determined to give...
...smack the bejeezus out of a ball--that's the guy for us. Like most great things American, the home run deconstructs strategy with a beautiful act of aggression. So Mark McGwire, 250 lbs. of muscle in a game full of the fat and unfit, doesn't really shock when he sends the ball more than 500 ft. And Ken Griffey Jr., hat backwards, grin cocksure, seems almost bored as he gently taps homers over the fence. The crowd expects it, the crowd gets it, and the crowd goes home happy. We delight in the obvious. Give...
...much of this century, the prevailing thought was that pre-term babies should not be touched, since the slightest shock could prove fatal. Ever so slowly, the medical establishment has been warming to the idea that massage helps sickly babies. Yet only a handful of hospital nurseries in the U.S. offer massage to these tiniest of patients. Hospital administrators remain skeptical of claims about its therapeutic value, and since most HMOs don't cover baby massage, there's little incentive to start pilot programs. Besides, harried nurses can barely handle the steady stream of critically ill infants with special needs...
...with thousands still missing and the mangrove swamps and lagoons littered with corpses, authorities fear it may be closer to 3,000. And that may be compounded by the threat of disease as bodies lie unburied in the tropical heat and homeless residents, still in shock, find themselves without adequate food or a safe water supply. The tsunamis followed a yearlong drought in which thousands of people starved to death...