Word: sorrowful
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...even as the violence escalated, the truth about what happened on June 9 remains elusive. Israeli officials initially expressed sorrow over the incident and halted shelling in the area pending an internal investigation of the incident. But last week the Israelis revealed that a probe led by Major General Meir Kalifi has absolved Israel of blame. According to Kalifi, the Israel Defense Forces (I.D.F.), on the basis of aerial surveillance, have fixed the time of the explosion at between 4:57 p.m. and 5:10 p.m. In response to Qassam rocket attacks by Palestinian militants, the I.D.F. fired six artillery...
...morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways. "I didn't have time to count how many died," says Damai, a nurse at a small clinic in Bantul whose uniform is stained with blood. She is ready to cry, as much from exhaustion as sorrow. "We haven't stopped working since morning." A grim benefit of the weeks of worry over Merapi was that emergency personnel and supplies were already in place. And the tsunami had given many of them gruesomely practical experience in rapid relief operations. But for all the city's preparedness, Yogyakarta...
...morgues, which filled with the dead until corpses spilled over into the hallways. "I didn't have time to count how many died," says Damai, a nurse at a small clinic in Bantul whose uniform is stained with blood. She is ready to cry, as much from exhaustion as sorrow. "We haven't stopped working since morning...
...year in a rundown government hospital in Bunia, a dusty town in Congo's northeast. Her son Jonathan, 2, was propped up on a tangled wad of clothes atop a rusting bed; he hadn't moved his limbs or spoken for weeks. Live had already endured a lifetime of sorrow. She lost two children to treatable illnesses. Her sister, her father and an aunt were all murdered in attacks by one of the ethnic militias that terrorize this corner of Congo. Doctors at the hospital determined that Jonathan had meningitis, a life-threatening but treatable inflammation of the lining around...
...Baghdad ER's" film makers Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill spent two months in Baghdad's Green Zone where the 86th CSH was located. Through the film, the camera pans from moments of levity to moments of sorrow; from a surgeon cracking a joke while stitching entrails together in the operating room to a wounded soldier confiding in his friend that he can't close his eyes without seeing the missing face of their Humvee driver killed in an explosion earlier that...