Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biotech age will also give us more reason to guard our personal privacy. Aldous Huxley, in Brave New World, got it wrong: rather than centralizing power in the hands of the state, DNA technology has empowered individuals and families. But the state will have an important role, making sure that no one, including insurance companies, can look at our genetic data without our permission or use it to discriminate against...
Such a hefty sum might draw a few brave souls--students said that money is the primary reason they participate in psych experiments to begin with. Others may be fulfilling course requirements or considering psychology as a possible concentration...
...Today's brave new world has its own version of Soma: Ritalin. The list of behaviors that help determine if a child is hyperactive and a candidate for Ritalin is a list of behaviors all children exhibit at one time or another. Our job as parents is to teach our children to listen, sit still, concentrate and be patient and responsible. I fear what sort of adults these medicated children will become. MARY MANCINELLI South Lyon, Mich...
...other hand, you have to admit that there is something brave about moving this character from the place where he usually lurks in the movies--on the comic-relief fringe of a teen-age gang--to the center of the action. You also have to admire the creepy arrogance of Schwartzman's performance. We can see that it covers loneliness, social ineptitude, even a certain amount of duplicity. His father is not the neurosurgeon he claims he is, but a barber. Yet the actor never once sues us for sympathy, and it comes as a nice surprise when we find...
...that time of the year again--the time when city boulevards and student dorm rooms gain the peculiar glow of holiday lighting; the time when everything from our televisions to our radios becomes infected with the holiday spirit; the time when uncounted throngs of shoppers brave long lines in order to buy the perfect gift, or at least one that is merely good enough...