Word: adults
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expression for which the Internet is famous. There's Anime Carnival and Mack's Mouse Hole, White Wolf's World of Darkness and Spirit's Haunted Palace. There are foreign-language palaces like Mexchat, Chatteria ("the Swiss Palace server") and intranet-quebec.com kids' palaces whose authentication software bars inappropriate visitors; adult palaces like SinCity and Nite Winds that...well, if you care enough to ask, you'd probably prefer to find out about those for yourself...
...mention one who is busy waiting to become the King of England, deserves a bit of peace and quiet. A chance to ride to the hounds--the hunting season is about to go into full-blooded swing in Gloucestershire--or relax, at long last, into an increasingly public, adult relationship with his longtime love, Camilla Parker Bowles. Now that it appears as if history and the media are finally beginning to cast a kind eye upon him, he might even be able to rest a bit on his laurels...
...handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told by NIMH officials, as funding for the project dried up. Strong doesn't advocate a particular therapeutic approach--though, like Levenkron, she prefers coddling to the tougher tactics of Conterio...
EMANCIPATED. DOMINIQUE MOCEANU, 17, Olympic gold-medal gymnast; by a Texas state judge; in Houston. The 1996 champion was declared a legal adult in a settlement with her parents, whom she accused of squandering her earnings. The decision lets her seek a past accounting and make her own future deals...
...while the Vienna Choir Boys had their ups and downs, it was difficult to depart feeling disheartened. Although they did not achieve the standard of an adult choir, it might have been unreasonable to have expected them to. The Vienna Choir Boys were consummate professionals, but as they exited the stage, large boyish grins betrayed their young age. The Vienna Choir Boys might not have been perfect, but there was something about them that, indeed, was angelic...