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...such corpses, as well as mass graves containing hundreds of bodies plowed under by bulldozers. But it was difficult to distinguish the living from the dead. According to an English reporter on the scene, "dead bodies, black-and-blue and bloated, and skeletons had been used as pillows by sick people," who were themselves living skeletons. It was, said Georg Diederichs, a postwar governor of the region, "a gigantic death camp of apocalyptic proportions." Despite attempts to save the living, 9,000 inmates died during the first two weeks after the British rescue, and 4,000 more succumbed thereafter...
...raises a question. If you thought up an intriguing, perhaps even a socially beneficial game, would you flog it mercilessly from every conceivable commercial angle until consumers got sick at the very sight of the game's name? Yes, no or depends. --By J.D. Reed. Reported by JoAnn Lum/New York
Whatever the reason for bullying, the consequences are clear. Nishina found that victims feel sick more often than their classmates do, are absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going...
...haven’t lost in a long time,” said sophomore setter Dave Fitz. “I feel sick to my stomach a little...
Chen, who says he once shoveled snow for a half hour in a blizzard to bring a box of Immodium to his sick son while he was a student at Harvard Law School, admits that it has taken a little bit extra to operate a store like the Superette for so many years...