Word: trauma
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...briefly exposed breast—its nipple coyly shielded by a solid silver sun—apparently caused severe emotional trauma to millions of Americans all across this fair nation who were inappropriately exposed to this intimate part of the female body. After the performance, the FCC received hundreds of thousands of complaints for the display. One Tennessee woman has vowed to sue both parties involved because the act caused her “serious injury.” But while the performance was clearly in poor taste, it certainly does not merit such a serious outcry?...
...hotel, sleep in army-green tents on concrete slabs. The warehouses of the World Food Program are made of canvas. Still, the locals consider themselves relatively fortunate: though fighting has continued in other parts of the country, Rumbek has been calm since 2001. "The level of insecurity, of trauma, has really fallen," says Paul Macuei Malok, 51, Rumbek county commissioner. "We have embarked on development," he says, then corrects himself. "Not development really, but rehabilitation." Rumbek is ahead of most of the rest of the south in its recovery. A few crumbled buildings have been rebuilt and refitted with corrugated...
...team of 57 trauma surgeons, pediatricians and nurses were the first Americans to travel to Iran in an official capacity since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and hostage crisis...
Moreover, none of the doctors spoke Farsi, the official language of Iran, and instead relied on the use of translators, many of whom were students from Tehran University. The language barrier proved especially difficult in cases of psychological trauma...
...Daisy, like many of her generation, had much she may have wished to forget. Born into the florid decay of imperial China, Daisy would live through a particular horror: she watched her own mother, forced to become a concubine, commit suicide by swallowing raw opium. Despite such early trauma, she managed to survive in Shanghai amid hellish marital troubles (her brutal first husband divorced her and seized custody of her three children), before she fled to the U.S. As Daisy exhibits symptoms of Alzheimer's, a concerned Amy takes her mother in for tests; Daisy growls, "Nothing wrong my memory...