Word: shock
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...Nancy in mid-December when she was in Napa wine country with four friends. They were on their way to have dinner at the famous restaurant the French Laundry. "My father called my cell," she said. "He said, 'We've lost everything.' I went into a kind of surreal shock...
...editor-in-chief of the company's 108 year-old Guide Rouge. Sagely, the reports avoided any moaning about German cooking or foreign assaults on la grandeur de la France. "Why should the appointment of Ms Julianne Caspar, someone who is clearly a hugely qualified traditional French cuisine proponent ... shock the French?" asked Anglophone French blog franceblogcom. "This blog and its French members are happy to learn that a woman, a German, has been selected for the job." (Read Tony Blair's view of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, a runner-up for TIME's Person of the Year...
Meanwhile, those still keen to travel can take advantage of falling prices and discounted packages, though they may still have to put up with security scanners and sniffer dogs. But while the shock of the Mumbai attack may wear off soon, the economic downturn has only just begun to bite, and many expect next year to be worse. "We are all aware of the Bali and Madrid incidents and how things have looked up after that," says Sud of FHRAI. "But yes, the economic meltdown may last a bit longer...
...authority figure. Milgram's experiments - linchpins of any freshman psych class - were simple. Volunteer participants were enlisted to help with a study purportedly tracking the effects of punishment on learning. When the "learner" made an error, the volunteer was told to administer an electric shock. Milgram found volunteers were disturbingly willing to follow orders, even as voltage levels increased in intensity and the subject's mild protests escalated into anguished shrieks. (The shocks were fake; both the learner and the authority figure prodding the volunteer were complicit in the experiment.) "The haunting images of participants administering electric shocks...
...being omnipotent in order to learn how tough it is to be in charge of the universe. This time it's just an excitable friend (John Michael Higgins) who drags Carl to one of those personal-help messiahs who pock the California mindscape. The word from this shock-haired swami (Terence Stamp) is "Yes." By saying yes to every chance that comes your way - a homeless man's plea for your money, a street peddler's flier for a band concert, a loan request from any indigent who wanders into the bank - you will open yourself to unexpected possibilities...