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Slide 45: Increased vulnerability to psychological symptoms • Exposure to war and political violence • Individual vulnerability before trauma exposure • Lower pre-migratory expectations • Resettlement stress - Father's long term (> 6 mths) unemployment in first year.— Recently Uploaded Slideshows
No degree of cleanliness outweighs the undeniable fact that these animals are in liver failure prior to slaughter, that they suffer, that this process in no way mimics the natural pre-migratory gorging of wild ducks, and that there is no need to be cruel to an animal in order to sustain ourselves.— Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories
Without this frozen ceiling, small fish, insect larvae, crayfish, snails and seeds become a buffet for some of the handsomest creatures on the planet - migratory ducks.— The Daily News Tribune Homepage RSS
The Germans call it "zugunruhe" - migratory restlessness - and it will impel each individual bird to head north once again, on the long and often dangerous journey back to our shores.— Blogposts | guardian.co.uk

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