Word: shock
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...beholder - and Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas of how much money is required to guarantee prescription coverage. Andrew Rettenmaier, an economist at Texas A&M University who specializes in analyzing Medicare policy, believes we need to prepare ourselves for the inevitable sticker shock of prescription drug coverage, and thinks the best way to do that is to imagine what might happen if we didn't create coverage in the first place. "Medicare currently covers about five percent of what seniors pay for drugs," Rettenmaier says. That means 95 percent of the cost has to be picked...
...most, the shock events of the World Cup defied explanation. "An incomprehensible fiasco," is how L'Humanit? described France's ignominious exit. Argentina's failure to qualify for the second round had former team coach Carlos Bilardo, now a television commentator, sputtering into his microphone: "The impossible just happened." But as fans and experts calm down over the next few days, they may find some solace, and more sense, in the old clich?...
...this is especially worrying for King Mohammed VI, who ascended to the throne just three years ago upon the death of his father, King Hassan II. Discovering the al Qaeda connection in Morocco was a shock, adding another problem after massive street protests in support of the Palestinians, fresh political tensions with Algeria over the future of the disputed Western Sahara and unemployment hitting 25 percent in some parts of the country. Nonetheless, Moroccan officials say, the King is determined to keep his promise to support the U.S. after the Sept. 11 attacks. By standing up to al Qaeda...
...journey begins when a rat (we'll get to humans later) feels the stress, in this case an electric shock. The rat's senses immediately send a message to the central portion of its brain, where the stimulus activates two neural pathways. One of these pathways is a relatively long, circuitous route through the cortex, where the brain does its most elaborate and accurate processing of information. The other route is a kind of emergency shortcut that quickly reaches an almond-shaped cluster of cells called the amygdala...
...this point, the other half of the stress signal has reached the cortex, which confirms that there's a danger present and figures out that it's causing pain. Once the shock has warn off, a part of the brain called the prefrontal cortex sends out an all-clear message and lets the amygdala know that it's O.K. to stand down. At least it's supposed to. It seems that it's harder to turn off a stress response than to turn it on. This makes sense, in terms of survival. After all, it's better to panic unnecessarily...