Word: squeamishness
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...approval. Though doctors have long used the little bloodsuckers to clear pooled blood in skin grafts and blocked veins, the French company Ricarimpex SAS is the first to have sought and received FDA clearance, under a 1976 law, to market the invertebrates for medicinal purposes. If that makes you squeamish, consider this: the FDA this year also allowed the marketing of medicinal maggots to eat away dead tissue from wounds...
...official agrees that the Abu Ghraib soldiers were undertrained and undersupervised, he insists that similar tactics--used more carefully--are effective. "When women have power and control over you, that sets the male psyche out of its equilibrium. He's not dominant anymore. It's not for the squeamish. But the typical Arab male will do anything to avoid it," he says. "The overall process is one of humiliating these people. And that is being used to find the people who are planting roadside bombs...
...tendency of lurid cultural issues to crowd out the more important stuff. Even Iraq has settled into the dim middle distance. Few images from the war are as startling--as "spontaneous"--as Justin Timberlake's ripping Janet Jackson's bodice. The violence of combat is sanitized into banality by squeamish editors. And there are no compelling images to convey the absence of weapons of mass destruction or how difficult it will be for an American Secretary of State to bring a credible argument for war to the United Nations anytime soon...
When students recognized the reasons for their slim pickings, they immediately sought to address the issue. Posts about poor food began to plague Lowell-open as students compared their options to squeamish slop of all sorts...
...vast majority of them with subject headings like "Thank you," "Well put," "Bravo," Kudos," "Amen, brother," "Loved the article!" and "wow." Most of the notes cheered me for pointing out what reader David Tuggy called "the deep intolerance of the professionally tolerant." And while any old leftie is naturally squeamish about being praised by cultural conservatives for attacking those usually on his own side, I am surprised by and grateful for the e-mail, and take this opportunity (in lieu of individual replies) to thank you who wrote...