Word: shock
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...weeks ago, John Hogan received a horrible shock...
...coats last week, and some 60,000 researchers signed a petition charging the government with "financially asphyxiating public research institutions." Says Marc Peschanski, who heads research into neurological disorders at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research: "Massive resignation is the only way to give an electric shock to the government and the people of France." In an attempt to calm the protesters, Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin last week promised [EURO]3 billion in additional science funding...
...over the world champion Soviet team in the 1980 Games. But Miracle makes a valiant attempt to transcend the trappings of its saccharine genre, and largely succeeds with the prescient casting of Kurt Russell as team coach Herb Brooks. Russell, whose dusty film resume has been given a sudden shock, walks, talks and grunts the part of the bull-headed Brooks with confidence; if the film had been released two months earlier, he could very well be garnering award attention. The film’s only crutch is its presentation of the hockey games, splattered onto the screen with...
...past few years, PETA has repeatedly used shock tactics in an attempt to further its cause, summed up by PETA President Ingrid Newkirk as “total animal liberation.” Last year, its activists began a campaign entitled “Holocaust On Your Plate,” likening the slaughter of stockyard animals to the genocide undertaken by Nazi Germany. On the PETA-controlled website dedicated to that campaign, www.masskilling.com, images from concentration camps are juxtaposed with images from the stockyards...
...animals, comparable to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Nor is PETA interested in convincing ranchers—who were collectively compared to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer by the organization’s leadership—to adopt more humane methods of slaughtering animals. They seem more concerned about launching shock campaigns to convince (vainly) Americans to go vegan. In any case, it would be fallacious to think of PETA as an organization bent on saving animals’ lives. To this goal, less than 1 percent of PETA’s annual budget is dedicated...