Word: shock
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gore, the first few months after the election were a time for the shock to settle in. "There was this sadness in his eyes that gave me chills," says a former aide. Gore turned the corner that summer, when he gave up his Secret Service protection and took a six-week European vacation with Tipper, the longest break of their 32-year marriage. Incognito under beard, baseball cap and sunglasses, Gore finally relaxed, and "by the time I got back from that vacation, I was pretty much over...
...consumer-friendly device designed to restart hearts in the home, where 70% of cardiac arrests occur. The HeartStart Home Defibrillator, manufactured by Philips Electronics, is similar to other so-called automated external defibrillators (AEDs) that you may have seen in casinos or airports. The machines deliver the same electrical shock as those paddles doctors use in the hospital--and without which no medical television show worth its Nielsens could long survive...
...minutes; Churchill creates galaxy-size stories with black-hole prose. In "A Number" she has pared future shock, tomorrow horror, down to the bone - past the bone, really, to the DNA that makes every clone a Bernard, and every Bernard pathetically or tragically different...
...around Europe displaying plasticized cadavers in athletic and "artistic" poses since 1997. With police threatening to shut down the event - several complaints are pending, so Von Hagens may yet be arrested - and some medical professionals calling it a travesty, we wanted sound bites of public outrage, or at least shock. We'd fallen into a Venus-flytrap of p.r., since anything we wrote would be more publicity for Von Hagens' one-man (and a lot of dead bodies) show. We didn't care; we knew a good story when we saw one. Or so we thought. Unfortunately for our stories...
Last Tuesday, Iriye, Fichtner and 19 other historians from around the country—including Warren Professor of American History Ernest May and Columbia University historian Alan Brinkley—sent their letter to the CUNY chancellor expressing “shock and dismay” at Johnson’s treatment...