Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nightly insulin shot and instead prescribed another medication. The man went into a coma. Compassion can also be a casualty. One young doctor admitted to abruptly cutting off the questions of a man who had just been told he had AIDS: "All I could think of was going home...
...creativity suffer. Two nights of skimpy sleep, and rote functioning is affected. In laboratory tests, sleep-deprived subjects have trouble adding columns of figures or doing simple repetitive tasks like hitting buttons in a prescribed pattern. By the end of a week, people can be seriously impaired. "Driving home on Friday is a greater risk than on Monday, when you haven't been deprived of sleep all week," says Mary Carskadon, director of chronobiology at E.P. Bradley Hospital in Providence. And stopping at a bar with colleagues for a postwork drink can make the situation worse; studies show that...
...Japan. Officeworkers in Tokyo often commute for an hour or more, arriving at their desks at 9 a.m. and staying until 8 p.m. or later. Then they go out to eat and drink with colleagues, an essential part of the job, and catch the last train home at midnight. Workers get only 113 days off a year, compared with Americans' 134 and Germans' 145. Exhausted Japanese can be seen sleeping everywhere: on subways and trains, in elevators, at concerts and baseball games, and during business meetings. The usual apology: "Well, it's not exactly polite...
...LONG WALK HOME...
...Long Walk Home, at least, gets points for making the audience's white surrogate a woman and for giving equal emotional weight to the black woman who spurs her toward responsible action. In Montgomery in 1955, blacks are boycotting city buses until they are allowed to sit wherever they please. ! Odessa Cotter (Whoopi Goldberg) must walk nine miles to her job as maid for the Thompson family. And Miriam Thompson (Sissy Spacek) must take a painful journey too, from the blinkered bourgeoisie to courageous solidarity with her sisters under the skin...