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...there usually. But above that, there really was no psychological training. They put us in shock-value scenarios, like viewing those autopsies. They put us in front of that to gauge our reactions, and I think most everybody dealt with it pretty well. That being said, one thing we do back home at Biotrauma, we've identified the fact that stress has a cumulative effect on the body. We seem to be strong, or at least we tell ourselves that [laughs], and we haven't had any problems, but that's not to say something couldn't happen down...
...another thing is that, let's say a mother just had the suicide of her son in the kitchen. If she's cooking a week later and she pulls out a pan from her rack and turns it over and sees a little spot of blood on it, that's such a huge traumatic reminder of what happened. We refuse to let that happen. So what we do is we get lights, we go top to bottom, left to right, like an inch from the wall, just looking over everything. And that's part of the physical side...
...mother, like thousands of others, was left to rely on the bleak charity of the time to raise a family. It made me think that a decent social security system designed to protect the weak was no bad thing." - Recounting his family's difficulties after his father's death during his first speech to Parliament in 1998. (The London Telegraph, November...
...other hand, that whole bridge-between-East-and-West thing is a bit of a cliché; every Western leader who has ever given a speech in Istanbul has made that point. If Obama wants to be different, he may need another location. "Turkey is a safe choice, but not an inspired one," says the Arab diplomat. "It's like shooting terrorists from a Predator drone - you get the job done, but you don't really engage with people on the ground...
...that's prompted a backlash from opponents who believe the goal should be getting France to practice the color-blind promise of the Republic - not swapping it for U.S.-style multiculturalism and affirmative action. "Even if it's out to do the right thing, positive discrimination remains discrimination, and classifying people by race and ethnicity is in a manner itself racism," argues Malek Boutih, former head of France's seminal civil rights group S.O.S. Racism, and now a member of the Socialist Party's national bureau. "You don't surrender your principles because they are being abused in practice...