Word: trauma
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...conference-closing speech that recalled his "truly surreal journey" from an impoverished childhood in New York's Hispanic East Harlem to become America's chief doctor, the former trauma surgeon welcomed the benefits from the genomics revolution, but also stressed that America faced immediate and very critical health problems, notably the epidemic of obesity among the young. "It's every bit as threatening as the terrorist threat," he said, adding it would lead to a level of disease and chronic illness that would confront the country with a crushing economic burden...
Most experts, however, say the study’s findings, presented by Professor of Psychology Richard J. McNally at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), show that emotional trauma can stem from imagined experiences...
Left without the potent and familiar twin silhouette, everyone resolved to recover from the physical and emotional trauma, even as the greater question loomed: “Why did this take place, and what is it all about?” Addressing this question is fundamental to understanding the emphasis on spectacle—extreme nostalgia, extreme lament, extreme rationalism, extreme height—seen so far in the proposals for rebuilding the World Trade Center site...
...performances at colleges and universities? Where is the transsexual woman who loves her female sexuality, who came about loving her vagina in a different way than the voices that are shown? What about people who don’t want their vaginas touched, not because of any particular sexual trauma, but because that is not how they choose to be sexual? These are the voices that we should seek out, not in a way that tokenizes or appropriates them, but listens to them in order to critique how each of us re-creates patriarchy and oppression in our daily lives...
...which the foundations of both towers once rested. As the street-level sounds of the city fell away, the primeval depths of Manhattan filled his view. "At that bedrock level you can see the indelible traces of the towers," says Libeskind. "These were walls that had withstood the trauma of the attack. I thought to myself, There is something very significant here--the voice of the site itself...