Word: chasms
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...study just released by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows a disturbing chasm between parents and kids about just how effective family talks can be. Even though 66% of parents of eight-to-11-year-olds said they had talked to their kids about guns in school, only half of their children remembered having such a conversation. Parents should bring up topics frequently but naturally, so kids learn that difficult subjects can be freely and easily discussed at home...
Later these animated sequences were combined with matte paintings that would fill in parts of the frame outside the scope of the table-top set, giving the illusion of mountains and clouds in the distance, maybe a bottomless chasm on the left. More expensive productions would integrate actors in the foreground as well and then, as in the case of "Kong," find clever ways to suggest interaction between animated and live-action parts of the frame...
...stories of the dead and the doomed. "More than anywhere else in the world, AIDS in Africa was met with apathy," says Suzanne LeClerc-Madlala, a lecturer at the University of Natal. The consequences of the silence march on: infection soars, stigma hardens, denial hastens death, and the chasm between knowledge and behavior widens. The present disaster could be dwarfed by the woes that loom if Africa's epidemic rages on. The human losses could wreck the region's frail economies, break down civil societies and incite political instability...
...exchange. In the past decade, an uproar has grown over the discrepancies between sentencing for possession of crack (which tends to surface in inner cities and often carries an extremely harsh punishment) and cocaine (the drug of choice among the upper class; repercussions tend to be much lighter) - a chasm that emphasizes race and class divides. Proportionately, more women than men are incarcerated on drug charges, and far more black and Hispanic addicts are arrested than their white counterparts...
...What the Atlantic dispute over missile defense reveals is a philosophical chasm that may prove impossible to bridge. Left-tilting European governments invest real significance in the patchwork of multilateral treaties and institutions that constitute a ?global governance? system. But American conservatives, such as those in Bush?s coterie, chafe at such constraints on unilateral action. Europeans believe global warming and genetically modified food are threats worthy of diplomatic attention; Bush?s national security team hardly believes such concerns exist. And the E.U. is far more committed to the United Nations and international development: European countries collectively spend three times...