Word: processing
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...stalemate in the peace process is making Palestinians like Dawish more anxious than ever about their future. The despair - and the potential for new conflict - may be greatest among the 300,000 refugees in Lebanon. Living often five to a room in 12 camps run by the United Nations, they watched as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat conducted years of talks with Israel yet failed to win a solution to the refugee problem, which dates to fighting during Israel's 1948 war of independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace...
...typical answer from Hadfield, a self-confessed business geek who claims to care more about entrepreneurial process than profits. Nor is he a techie, despite his new media credentials: "The computer and the Internet are just tools that allowed me to take part in a world I wanted to be in." They were also his ticket to the 2001 World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was named a Global Leader for Tomorrow. Meeting people like billionaire George Soros and microfinance pioneer Muhammad Yunus "was inspirational," he says. "I was hanging on every word...
...gone to court nonetheless, to see what the system can do for her. Once a week she travels to a women's center outside the capital where cases like hers are picked up and pursued through the courts. "I know that I'll get something out of this process," she tells a counselor at the center, wagging a finger in the woman's face, "even if it's only to tell my husband that he's the reason we didn't have babies...
Most sketch artists ask witnesses to examine drawings or photographs meant to jog their memories. But that process can muddy fragile recollections. "Human memories are very malleable, especially at the height of emotion," she says. "Ask, 'Did he have a moustache?' Well, he does now, because you're implanting that image." Her interviews are long chats about other topics, with only occasional questions related to the pad she holds just out of sight. "The assumption is that this work is about art," says Boylan, "but it's about the complexity of memory...
Even after a hearing aid is selected, programmed and fitted, a good audiologist will urge patients to return for adjustment and counseling. "Fitting hearing aids is a process, not an event. They're not like a pair of shoes or glasses, where you put them on and walk out," says audiology professor Rezen. "You have to go back and give the audiologist feedback so that they can adjust them. And hearing aids take learning; they take getting used...