Word: affections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...branch out and investigate if other factors are at work. For example, says Gorman, there is a tendency for children to stay in the same general socioeconomic stratum as their parents. "There is also evidence," she says, "that environmental deficits in the womb and early in life" can seriously affect a person?s health later on. Thus poor adults, who may simply be the inheritors of a poor childhood, may exhibit a less healthy adult life cycle -- not because of lower-class stress but rather because they may have been exposed to more lead or more pollution, or obtained less...
With hundreds of millions of dollars at stake, agritech companies aren't eager to draw sweeping conclusions from the Cornell experiments. "Obviously the work is preliminary and inconclusive," says Monsanto spokesman Randy Krotz, minimizing the possibility that corn pollen could ever be blown far enough to affect monarch habitats. But it was just such a discovery--of pollen-dusted milkweed 200 ft. from the edge of cornfields--that prompted Losey's study in the first place. Says he: "We asked ourselves, 'What would happen if the milkweed would be dusted with Bt [corn pollen]?'" His experiments quickly gave an answer...
...school and in my early 30s when I first played the game Doom. I soon caught the fever; Doom is nothing if not intense. For several weeks, if I wasn't studying or in class, I was playing Doom. If the game can affect a law student this way, I can only imagine the effect it must have on immature high school losers. I am convinced that violent computer games, much like alcohol and pornography, should be kept out of the hands of those younger than age 21. ANDREW PARMA San Antonio, Texas...
Like the other Personal Time pages, Your Family will be updated right through Saturday to include the freshest topics on readers' minds and in their dinner-table conversations. "The big push here at TIME these days is to report on news and issues that affect our families, from how to make our kids better students to what to do to help our aging parents," says Walter Isaacson, TIME's managing editor. "Big Government has become less relevant to our lives. What we do as citizens to build better families, schools and communities has become more important--and interesting...
...objection is that Pennsylvania's idea will disproportionately affect the poor. The rich, it is argued, will not be moved by a $300 reward; it will be the poor who will succumb to the incentive and provide organs...