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...full six months after the SEALs' disaster in Afghanistan before Waddell admitted to Marshéle that he was hurting. "Training inoculates you against trauma. The first time you see someone dead, it's a shock. By the 10th time, you're walking over dead bodies and making sick jokes about what they had for breakfast. But all that stress accumulates." Says Marshéle: "Mark was like the captain of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg. He had compartmentalized everything beautifully, but all these compartments were filling up with water. The ship was sinking...
...we’re doing well by pioneers when the average citizen worries about starting her own business because of medical bills. It’s tough to say we’re economically flexible when the average American family worries about bankruptcy when a child falls sick...
...hamster parties" at the homes of bloggers across the country. Cepia shipped product to the moms, who invited 10 children and their parents to play with the toys. "The approval of the bloggers was a huge legitimizer, believe me," says Natalie Hornsby. (See "Puppycam: For When You're Sick of Politics...
...hope that he is right. The first, naturally, is that India's 1.1 billion people deserve to have better life chances than they have had. Its villagers deserve power and clean water, its girls deserve to be able to stay in school beyond the primary grades and its sick deserve a functioning health care system. But second, the world could do with an example of rapid development on a massive scale that is not beholden to an autocratic, closed political system. China proves that such a system can provide better living standards for hundreds of millions, and that simple fact...
...freshman UC rep decides he wants to tell a story about how he used to be a hypochondriac who always went to UHS, thinking he was sick even when he had no symptoms. The point of this revelation? We're all being metaphoric hypochondriacs about this UC stuff and should just chill...