Word: betweeners
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There are important distinctions between young and aging bodies, of course. At 50 or so, when women reach menopause, the loss of estrogen accelerates the deterioration of bone mass. Nothing so dramatic happens to men at that age, but psychologically it's a good opportunity to get them to modify...
Psychiatrists started to notice that the drugs brought some awful side effects--facial contortions, blurred vision--and many patients began to refuse them. But "deinstitutionalization," as the reform movement was called, was well under way. Nearly half a million patients were returned to their communities between the mid-'50s and...
Al Gore has been sounding positively soulful lately. Yes, that Al Gore. In campaign appearances the former divinity student talks about the struggle between good and evil, and invokes Jesus Christ's parable of the sower to explain how media violence subverts children. In New Hampshire, Gore compared the alienation...
Civil liberties groups have raised predictable warnings about introducing religion into government services. But the more interesting criticism comes from some religious organizations themselves, which are worried that they will lose their sense of mission once they have to compete for federal dollars and abide by federal regulations. A Gore...
All that was long ago and far away, in a country different from our own. But there is a convergence of new books on the period, with fresh deceptions and clarifying truths. Tony Hiss's The View from Alger's Window: A Son's Memoir is a tender hagiography that...