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...deep hole into the secrets of Mother Earth," where she found herself "in a long, low hall, part of the palace of the Queen of Hearts (a neat touch)," from which the only way out was "through a hole frighteningly too small." In short, Alice re-enacted the birth trauma...
Motorcycle injuries have become so numerous that emergency-room doctors and trauma surgeons now rate them as epidemic, and they are, on the average, far more devastating than those that result from car crashes. "If you have your seat belt fastened and drive into a stone wall at 15 m.p.h.," says O'Donnell, "the car will be a mess but there won't be much damage to you. If you do that on a motorcycle, you get thrown against the brick wall, which is ruinous to flesh and bone." Since the rider is usually projected headfirst, like...
Easing Ahead. The stresses and strains of the middle years may be considerably eased in the decade or two ahead. Dramatic changes are certain. Biologically, the systematic use of hormones may phase out woman's change-of-life crisis and make the menopausal trauma a thing of the past. If the point of view that inspired the 1965 federal antidiscriminatory legislation on the hiring of older men flourishes, middle-aged men will be rid of the fear they now legitimately have that being fired, or quitting a job after 40, means a long, scary interlude in limbo before getting...
...Team Trauma. As an experienced trial lawyer, Marshall is unsurprised that two witnesses rarely report the same set of facts about an auto accident, "an exceedingly complex and sudden occurrence taking less than ten seconds." For one thing, witnesses overestimate time and distance according to how endangered they feel. They disagree on how fast the same car was going by as much as 25% . Perception also varies with physical condition: menstruating women, for example, react slowly, while older persons have less facility for perception of speed and depth. Interpretive judgments may vary with each individual's "age, race, nationality...
...when she was ten, Daddy died. It was the trauma of her life, or so she came to think in later years. At any rate, she became a compulsive talker, a compulsive learner, a compulsive writer. All through her teens she scribbled stories, plays, poems-many of them sufficiently professional to be published in Seventeen and Mademoiselle. She won a scholarship to Smith, where she made straight A's. But her feelings took their revenge. At 19, after an unhappy month in New York City, she ran home to Wellesley, Mass., crawled under the front porch, hid behind...