Word: shock
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...Donohue was, of course, in shock. She had just awoken to a gruesome murder but had not fully realized it yet. But she was not the only one who was confused in those crucial first moments. Virginia Tech officials, citing the ongoing investigation, have released few details about their initial response to the killings of Clark, who died along with Donohue's neighbor Emily Hilscher. But it's already clear that the university reaction was tragically misguided. University police have admitted that they believed the killings were a one-off domestic dispute. They didn't close campus or warn students...
...trembling all over. "Something's the matter in my dorm, " she told him. "I think somebody got hurt badly. " Her boyfriend, who, like Donohue, is a member of Campus Crusade for Christ, prayed with her and walked her back to the dorm, but only because Donohue, still in shock, believed she needed to get lab goggles for her 8 a.m. chemistry class...
...calls into question the center's practice of reintroducing captive-bred pandas into the wild. The fate of 4-year-old Xiang Xiang, a former Wolong resident, has added to the controversy. Having had his every need anticipated by a loyal band of caregivers, the baffled bear received the shock of his young life last spring. He was dropped into the middle of thick bamboo forest, making him the first giant panda bred in captivity to be released by Chinese scientists into the wild. Although he had received some survival training, Xiang Xiang soon found he had been left...
Thus we must pity the chastened shock jock, for he knows not what he does. Perhaps he’s that rapscallion whose ribald humor, so popular on the jungle gym, is arbitrarily condemned by the grown-ups, while the other rascals escape unscathed. The justification for his punishment eludes him, yet he must desperately try to seem sorry...
Despite the risks, it remains relatively easy to be a shock jock, as there exists on the airwaves such a fertile market for peddling prejudice—the more bilious, the better. Every day, millions of Americans gather with guilty grins around the speaker, waiting for the next slur to slide out. The audience doesn’t ever have to echo these views in civil society, only to smirk in silent complicity when they are voiced in the comfort of their sedan...