Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these names rested in quiet solitude yesterday in the serene alcove of the Memorial Room tucked away in Memorial Church. Nine mammoth stone panels grace three walls of the room, listing the names, ringed by the words of President A. Lawrence Lowell: "While a bright future beckoned, they freely gave their lives and fondest hopes for us and our allies that we might learn from them...
Researchers think that age-related sleeping problems are caused, at least in part, by improper synchronizing of the human circadian pacemaker, or the "body clock." Currently, however, no one is sure how this happens, although it has been noted that bright light can help both aging people and astronauts "reset" their pacemakers...
...injury that was shocking but the things that brought them to this point in their lives," says Strong. Typically, at some point in adolescence, they happen to injure themselves. Not only does it not hurt but the blood seems to voice their pain and also take it away--a "bright red scream," as one self-injurer told Strong, of all they can't communicate. "It's like the old movies where someone was hysterical, someone slapped them and they sighed thank you," explains Levenkron. "We all understand the physical can mediate the emotional...
...emerging into the daylight: it has been the "disease of the week" topic on recent episodes of the teen-oriented TV series 7th Heaven and Beverly Hills 90210. And now come two major books: Bodily Harm (Hyperion) by Conterio and Lader, based on their successful treatment program, and A Bright Red Scream (Viking), in which journalist Marilee Strong provides a compelling tour of the trauma and science of self-injury...
Philosophically, the simplistic pop Hinduism that was hippie spirituality has been displaced by bright young pagans: the computer-programming, anthropologically aware polymaths who have popularized the imaginative role-playing bulletin boards (MUDs and MOOs) of cyberspace. And the popular new dropout vision is Temporary Autonomous Zones, a rugged, realistic liberation doctrine that's completely purged of hippie naivete...