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Compression fractures are often accompanied by ruptured spinal discs and torn muscles. Victims may spend as long as five months in a torso cast or in traction. Some face a lifetime of continuing pain or disability...
...thousand years. Male supremacy is a social fact; and as such is a central part of the dominant ideology. This ideology is part of our consciousness, but our consciousness is also made from our experience of our lives. This experience has been mostly one of frustrations and disappointments, being torn apart trying to "fit in" to a system that we don't want to fit in-it has nothing to offer...
Give the women full use of the Memorial Drive Building until it is torn down to build low-cost housing...
...Torn to Bits. What Campbell witnessed was characteristic of a tornado. The houses on either side of a tornado's twisting funnel are in a low-pressure area. But the air inside the houses momentarily retains its original pressure. In that instant, a house can simply explode. Thus Civil Defense authorities urge people to keep their windows and doors open during a tornado so that the pressures can equalize. In Inverness, few heeded weather-service warnings that preceded the twisters...
...Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...