Word: trauma
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...Haider was a divisive figure who once referred to the members of Nazi Germany's Waffen SS as deserving of as much honor as any German soldier, and who praised Hitler's employment policies. But the emotion and media frenzy around his death, which Hofer compares to England's trauma over the passing of Princess Diana, has distracted people from Haider's far-right legacy. Haider's party will contest elections in the province of Carinthia next spring. Few observers doubt that the party will use Haider's face on campaign posters. And few doubt that, reports of the circumstances...
...Wade falls, plenty of states will still keep abortion legal. I could even live with the fact that she inspires strange Oedipal-like feelings in me because of her resemblance to the teacher/stripper in Varsity Blues—it’s just the consequence of some childhood trauma that I’ve repressed. But what I can’t live with is not knowing what Sarah Palin thinks about dinosaurs.My concern probably would not have manifested itself had it not been vocalized by political pundit Matt Damon, who in an interview with Air America said...
...Near the end of the program, Fogarty was asked to write about the fires, a task that brought both relief and anxiety. "I thought, it's so nice to begin to be honest about this," she says. But as she started reliving the trauma, "I felt I needed someone alongside me to help me do it." At her online guide's suggestion, she now sees a counselor once a month; the cost is covered by Medicare. "E-therapy was a really positive first step," she says. "It brought me to where I needed...
...tree rings. During adolescence, says Giedd, summing up the process, "you get fewer but faster connections in the brain." The brain becomes a more efficient machine, but there is a trade-off: it is probably losing some of its raw potential for learning and its ability to recover from trauma...
...happy about it. In Juno and Superbad and, before that, on Arrested Development, Cera has displayed that stricken look, as if he'd received a vision of what life has in store for him, and it worries him sick. He seems prematurely 40, so that any teen trauma has the impact of a midlife crisis or some awful dream endlessly repeating itself. As Nick O'Leary in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, he's the theoretically cool bass player in a band playing a Manhattan club. Except that the band is called the Jerk Offs, the other two members...