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...person in an accident, and the lives of five or six more people--family, friends--are rocked. Each of those five or six lives may touch five or six more, and those still more. If the original death toll is higher--say, 168 in a truck-bomb blast--the shock waves may extend across an entire state. And when the number of fatalities reaches the thousands, the very mental health of the nation can be shaken...
...this kind of clutching at strands of hope that helps define the early stages of grief and shock. In most cases the grieving move on, following familiar steps that include anger, depression and, finally, acceptance. Last week's blasts, however, may have ripped out that recovery route. "A woman kisses her husband goodbye, and the next thing she sees, the whole damn building falls down," says psychiatrist Marvin Lipkowitz of Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center. "There's a limit to what the mind can take...
...Akana helped set up more triage clinics and worked on not only rescue workers but also corpses found in the rubble. His extensive medical training prepared him for the intense experience, but he was still somewhat traumatized by the horrifying and gruesome things he saw. I was in shock when I dug out a leg from the rubble, he recalls. For the remainder of his time in New York, Akana worked with dead bodies, attempting to retrieve bodies from the wreckage. We would try to get the majority of the body out, so if it was caught under something...
Then the Bears had to watch as Harvard more than justified its NCAA selection by sweeping through its first two tournament games and reaching the Sweet 16. The lingering shock from last year’s tournament announcements was evident in longtime Brown Coach Phil Pincince’s words in the team’s preseason prospectus...
...Washington. Islamic solidarity is the first truth. "Osama bin Laden is not a terrorist. His mission is to highlight the problem the U.S. has done to the Arabs," one student on his way to classes said. And then he adds, almost as an afterthought: "The attack was a terrible shock and the perpetrators must be punished...