Word: trauma
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...relationship has never recovered from impeachment. Peter Baker reports in his book The Breach how former deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes approached several Democratic Party leaders about urging the President to resign. Gore's resistance to such feelers may have saved the country from an even greater trauma, but it deprived him of sailing into the election as an incumbent. And it left him susceptible to attack, as if Monica had delivered that pizza...
...their kids can be devastating. They get shuttled off to live with relatives or sent to foster homes. Studies show that kids with incarcerated mothers are more likely to refuse to eat, wet their beds and do poorly in school. "Not enough attention is being paid to the trauma on these kids," says Ann Jacobs, executive director of the New York City-based Women's Prison Association...
...their lungs. In most state and federal prisons, children are allowed to hug and kiss their moms, but in many jails in which women are awaiting trial and sentencing, contact is forbidden. A pane of thick glass separates the mother and child, which can be yet another trauma. Gail Smith, executive director of Chicago Legal Advocacy for Incarcerated Mothers, described an infant's wrenching visit. "When he saw his mother come out, his little hand went to the glass," Smith says. "But when he realized he couldn't touch her, he just started screaming...
...haircutting best for me--I was out of the chair, with a short haircut about which Bushell, when pushed, could only say, "Looks like you might play field hockey." I skulked out of the Athletes' Village and back to the press center, where I sadly discovered that my cuticle trauma was impairing my performance on the keyboard...
...highway menace is coming to this part of Par?. Brazil?s ministries of planning and transportation have ignored or forgotten the trauma of 1998 and, without consulting the federal Ministry of Environment, have approved paving the last dirt stretch of BR-163, which runs 1,741 km north and east from Campo Grande in Mato Grosso do Sul to the city of Santar?m in Par?. The 700-km unpaved section runs directly past Tapaj?s National Forest and on through millions of hectares of the most vulnerable parts of the rain forest. Says Nepstad: ?Brazilian scientists call this area the ?corridor...