Word: beaten
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...only guess at the psychological effects of names (What happens when that girl Howard reaches an age to be interested in other Howards?), but it seems reasonable to suggest that a boy named John will grow up differently from one named Cuthbert. He is less likely to be beaten up by his schoolmates, for one thing. Fashions change, though, as Gertrude gives way to Marilyn, and Marilyn to Debbie; a name that would have seemed weird a generation ago, like Kimberly, becomes a cliche...
...often that companies cheer the news that a competitor has beaten them to market with a hot new product. But something like that happened last week when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically...
Some Britons agree that caning is inhumane and should not be practiced. This position was emphasized on the day of the vote by a London Standard photo of Schoolboy Barry Tavner, 13, displaying his beaten bottom after he received five strokes from his headmaster for getting low grades. Ironically, Tavner, who attends a private school, will not be affected by the ban. Others have long advocated allowing teachers to strike. Said a Welsh councilman: "Sending a teacher into a classroom with no cane is like sending a boxer into the ring with one hand tied behind his back...
Lewis, balding and intense, is a thick-tongued speaker. But he is widely revered as a living saint, a man of courage and commitment who was always on the front lines. During the movement, he was arrested 40 times and beaten often. As an Atlanta councilman, he has set himself up as an unyielding moralist. "In some quarters they think I'm too honest, too open to be effective," he admits with pride...
Voyager began life in 1981 as a sketch on a napkin at the weather-beaten Mojave Inn, near the airport. The sketcher was Burt Rutan, 43, an engineer with an established reputation for building quirky-looking but aerodynamically ingenious planes. With his brother Dick and Jeana Yeager (no relation, believes Jeana, to famous Test Pilot Chuck), Rutan had decided to attempt the around-the-world flight...