Word: withdrawnness
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...Angeles, Carol Archer, 40, was assigned by the Shanti Foundation, another AIDS support group, to attend to the needs of a dying 31-year-old patient. He was alone; family and friends had withdrawn from him as lesions spread over most of his body. When Archer helped him with his will and funeral arrangements, he began to sob. She reached out, hugged him and rocked him in her arms. "He cried all the harder," she recalls, "then he looked up at me and said, 'No one's touched me in so long...
Pressure on the South African government has been rising steadily. In the past two months, the U.S. and a dozen West European nations have withdrawn their ambassadors for consultations, a deliberate gesture of disapproval. The Botha government's state of emergency has been denounced throughout the world. Last week, as he prepared to leave for a trip to seven black African countries, Pope John Paul II declared that South Africa's policy of apartheid was weighing on "the conscience of mankind," adding, "Our repugnance toward any form of racial discrimination is absolute and total...
...emerges in a loop at the far end. Maneuvering the colonoscope, they placed the loop around the suspect polyp and passed an electric current through the wire which cauterized the polyp, freeing it from the intestinal wall. Held to the end of the colonoscope by suction, the polyp was withdrawn. Using the same instrument, the doctors visually scanned the rest of the President's colon. It was during this examination that the larger polyp was discovered in the cecum, at the juncture of the large and small intestines...
Those troubles notwithstanding, some experts say that Coke could manage to keep both colas alive, despite the bleak verdict of historic precedent. But, observes Farquhar, "in general, when we have two very similar products produced by the same firm, one is likely to be withdrawn after a period of time...
Whatever the reason for bullying, the consequences are clear. Nishina found that victims feel sick more often than their classmates do, are absent more often and tend to have lower grades. They are also more depressed and withdrawn--a natural reaction, says Nishina, but one that "can subsequently lead to more victimization." The studies also indicate that schools take too narrow a view of what constitutes bullying. Physical aggression is forbidden, as are such forms of verbal bullying as sexual harassment and racial slurs. But the rules are generally silent about less incendiary name calling. "You're probably not going...