Word: shockingly
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...describes the process of "hearing out people's complaints and explaining very patiently what [The Crimson] did" as an attempt to close "unbridgeable gulfs." Fallows describes his role as acting as the "shock absorber" between the newspaper and the administration...
Cruel? A belt that delivers a 50,000-volt shock (and a likely pool of urine in a crowded courtroom) probably fits that definition. Unusual? Maybe no more so than exploding neck collars or magnetic boots for prisoners -- but those devices were Hollywood inventions. Stun belts are real and in use today, and now Amnesty International, in a report released Tuesday, is saying the devices are a human rights violation that puts the criminal justice system of the United States right down there with Singapore...
Eagleton, Boyd learned, had undergone electric shock treatment as part of a program of psychological therapy. It was a stunning revelation...
Saunders' positive result came as a shock to the nurse, but it shouldn't have. Seniors are one of the fastest-growing HIV-infected populations in the U.S. Sunny south Florida, a magnet for retirees, has the largest concentration of people 50 or older with HIV. Seniors account for 14% of AIDS cases in Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties, compared with 10% nationally. "You've got people contracting it later in life," says Drace Langford, a member of the Florida HIV/AIDS and Aging Task Force. But there are also seniors who have been living with HIV for years, thanks...
Though tragedies like this one make headlines, the real shock is what happens to the vast majority of mentally ill people. Most Americans with mental illness simply aren't treated. Of the 2 million who suffer from schizophrenia, for instance, more than half receive substandard care. Only a third of those with serious depression receive any treatment. Reformers have tried to call attention to these problems for years--former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has been an advocate since the '60s--but the mentally ill have a powerful new ally...