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...review in the New Hampshire Gazette describesthe nudity in "Under Ice" as "nothing prurient.Nothing to shock the sensitive...
...underscore the argument that "the White House certainly had reason to worry about the Department of Justice search of Vincent Foster's office." Banking Committee member Paul Sarbanes (D-Md.) countered that any mistakes by administration officials in the aftermath of Foster's death were due to the "emotional shock they had experienced." TIME's Suneel Ratan notes that in his testimony today, Hubbell made "a calculated effort to support the White House line. What they're trying to show is that, at worst, they were bumbling, but that it does not amount to a conspiracy to obstruct...
...POWER OF FEELINGS Physical trauma can distort memory, presumably by destroying all or part of one of these memory-processing structures. But other sorts of shock-strong emotion, for example-can do the same. Virtually everyone who was over the age of 10 when J.F.K. was shot or when Challenger exploded remembers precisely where he or she was when the news arrived. Posttraumatic stress disorder, which affects Vietnam vets like Bill Noonan, is another good example. While the intellectual memory of emotions is routed through the hippocampus, a different, gut-level sort of memory can be involuntarily revived with terrible...
THERE ARE MYRIAD WAYS TO GET AROUND the estrogen question. A woman can use herbs, vitamins and a positive mental at titude. A woman of my age (40) cannot remain ignorant of the "horrors" that lie ahead. But I wear my vivid shock of silver hair front and center. I survey my body with honest appraisal and admit that I don't look like I used to. And though faced with incontrovertible evidence that I have become "a woman of a certain age," I wouldn't be younger for anything or anyone. I am proud of what the years have...
BENETTON Its shock-value ads get a shock of their own: Germany bans them for exploiting suffering