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...which could be the first move in overturning a 1993 government apology on the subject. That Japan's Prime Minister is seen as calling on North Korea to come clean on the kidnapping of a handful of Japanese while casting doubt on his own country's responsibility for the trauma suffered by possibly hundreds of thousands of sex slaves - many of them Korean - doesn't exactly help his negotiation position...
...fret about the potential security risks and the costs posed by a swelling population of displaced Muslims. Although relieved to have escaped the grinding violence of Iraq, Sweden's Iraqis face the prospect of having to rebuild shattered lives and find work in an alien society. For many, the trauma of Iraq is inescapable. Recent arrivals like Alaa say they fear being hunted down by sectarian rivals in Stockholm. "We don't know who is who here," says Alaa. In a Swedish government asylum office, he was shocked to see Iraqis in "long beards and short pants" who looked like...
...proven innocent, they should treat him like he’s 100 percent innocent,” Flood said. “I’d hope that the Harvard population—students, teachers—would support someone who’d been through a trauma like that...
...Challenge,” can be found on the lab’s website at www.biopsychlab.com and has so far received over 100 submissions; but none have fit the study’s specific criteria. Among other stipulations, the criteria require that the subject in question have experienced severe trauma, and that his or her memory loss cannot be explained by biological factors. While Kenan Professor of Psychology Daniel Schacter, who studies the biological aspects of amnesia, agrees that examples of dissociative amnesia are difficult to identify before 1800, he does not rule out the possibility that they...
...evening. Most have gunshot wounds. Others have burns and lacerations from explosions. Shuwetij rarely asks what happened, in any case. "Most of the patients are exhausted when they come in," says Shuwetij, whose deep brown eyes sag heavily as he describes his days and nights at work as a trauma surgeon. "We try not to talk to them too much...