Word: turning
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...their reactions are normal and expected. Talking to family and friends is encouraged, but often it is not enough. Says Susan Solomon, coordinator of the National Institute of Mental Health's emergency and disaster research program: "The thing that makes disasters particularly damaging is that the people you normally turn to for help are also victims." Many Alaskans affected by the Exxon Valdez oil spill last March are finding professional help useful. In the three months after the accident, the number of people seeking assistance at the Valdez Counseling Center was three times the number who came during the same...
Stung by the snickers, Yeltsin later claimed that the brouhaha was an attempt by Gorbachev to "ruin my health and have me withdrawn from the realm of political struggle." Not so, retorted Bakatin, who called a press conference to brand Yeltsin a liar and, giving the knife a turn, charge that his story "does not hold water." Yeltsin may recover from his soaking, but he may also discover that a politician whose private life becomes the butt of jokes eventually does not have to worry about his public life. Just ask Gary Hart...
...undergraduates said simple urgency willcompel supporters to turn out for the Mobilizationfor Women's Lives this November in as a large anumber--if not larger--than last April...
...hoping to turn their season aroundafter earlier losses to Dartmouth, Brown and Yale,were unable to place a runner in the top 20. Yalejunior Jim Gibson won the men's race with anoutstanding time of 24:43 on one of the toughestfive-mile courses on the East Coast...
...incredible turn out," said Troy M. Woodward, a member of the Harvard chapter of the national American Indian Law Students Association (AILSA), which sponsored the symposium. "We have about 40 law students from other states...