Word: coping
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...Living in temporary shelters throughout Taiwan, Wu and some 7,000 other people made homeless by Morakot are trying to cope. The Cishan shelter's main hall is filled with drinks, crackers, new clothes, slippers, toothpaste, soap and towels - part of the outpouring of support from around the island. "It is good to be alive and to know people care," says Wu. But, she adds, "we're still in trauma." Still, Wu is one of the more optimistic residents; she, at least, wants to return to her village. Many don't. Yin Jui-rong, an aboriginal farmer whose village...
...long-term it faces a bleak outlook if it isn't able to figure out how to cope with a rapidly aging and shrinking population. Government estimates predict the figure will drop to 115 million in 2030 and fall below 100 million by the middle of the century...
Rosenthal said that the University is also creating emergency plans to help cope with the large number of additional cases...
Interestingly, parents who feel good about the way their kids have turned out tend to cope better, while those who aren't as confident have a harder time, says Norval Glenn, a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin who specializes in marriage...
...expectations of both candidates' victories swell, some fear that heavy disappointment in Abdullah's strongholds may yield protests. While no one foresees the kind of unrest that followed the disputed Iranian election in June, each candidate's lack of an "organized mechanism" to cope with masses of angered, loosely knit partisans could allow the situation to boil over with time, says Haroun Mir, director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies. "If one group feels left out, it will create problems for everybody," Mir says. Indeed, Abdullah's campaign manager told an Abu Dhabi-based newspaper last month...