Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your 17-year-old "First Person" writer Kate Carcaterra considers a violent film "a venting mechanism" for teen emotions. It's too bad she hasn't been shown other avenues for handling strong emotions in a mature way, such as communication and physical exercise, rather than relying on an entertainment form to handle them for her. ANNICK DOWNHOWER Arcadia, Calif...
Sources--Good News: Nutrition and Cancer (upcoming issue); Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (7/99). Bad News: JAACAP (7/99); New England Journal of Medicine (7/1/99...
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HIDDEN HEPATITIS Contracting hepatitis C is bad enough. Now Italian researchers report that one-third of the hepatitis C patients they studied also harbored the hepatitis B virus--even though it didn't show up on a standard blood test. Carrying both infections makes treatment more difficult and increases the odds of complications like cirrhosis of the liver, or even death...
...Home buyers with a government-backed mortgage should no longer be blindsided by costly repairs come Aug. 1. New rules set by the Federal Housing Administration, which will insure 1.3 million new mortgages this year, make appraisers responsible for detecting big defects such as a faulty furnace or a bad roof--and put the sellers on the hook for fixing them. Buyers will still be urged to hire an inspector for a more thorough review of the property...