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...lived through Sept. 11 will ever be the same again. Though the Western powers have installed a friendly government in Afghanistan, the ordinary man's self-confidence has not been restored. The world cannot remain frozen in the fear of Sept. 11, like a broken clock. The trauma and hurt have to be overcome. It is time to work again. There is yet a lot to do. And we can never give up. RAJENDRA K. ANEJA Dar es Salaam
...aggression in a slightly more obvious way. Composed of stuffed, flesh colored stockings, her figures resemble homemade dolls, maybe even a variant of the voodoo doll or a reference to the fertility goddess, the Venus of Willendorf. The three figures play out an ambiguous progression of weight gain, emotional trauma and aging. Their armless bodies are scarred with seams betraying surgery, deformity or self-mutilation...
Another anxious dreamer, Marisa W. Green ’04, envisioned academic trauma without flames. Although her life was not at stake, her grade was. “I dreamed that I was taking my Music 97 midterm this Wednesday and my exam packet was filled with nothing but blank pages,” she remembers, “so I had no idea what the questions were. Needless to say, I was unable to write anything for said exam...
...turns out that millions of listeners adapted All That You Can't Leave Behind to cope with the trauma of Sept. 11. After the lead single, Beautiful Day, won three awards at last year's Grammys?prompting Bono to declare immodestly, "[We're] reapplying for the job. What job? The best band in the world job"?the album slowly sank on the Billboard Top 200 album chart, bottoming out at 108 in August 2001. But in the months after 9/11, as people looked for comfort, escape or both, the album picked up momentum, rising as high as 25 after...
Paralysis results from neck and spinal cord injuries because the neural traffic that moves between the brain and the muscles is severed or blocked. Like a kink in a garden hose, spinal trauma cuts off the flow of information that travels along afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain, and efferent nerves, which carry instructions from the brain to the body's musculature. In many cases of paralysis, though, the motor and sensory nerves below the level of the lesion remain intact and could function again...