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...panelists downplayed recent reports that some "victims" become convinced in the course of therapy that they were abused as children and construct memories with little basis in reality...

Author: By Jonathan N. Axelrod, | Title: Panel Discusses Victims of Abuse | 11/19/1993 | See Source »

...other. Quite apart from the biological urge to reproduce, the unique properties of the relation between man and woman are such that a life lived apart from that relation will be "imperfect and stunted." Human sexuality is not simply a means of physical gratification, nor simply a mental construct, but a compound of the physical and psychological close to the root of our humanity...

Author: By Christopher B. Brown, | Title: Homosexuality's Frustration and Shame | 10/26/1993 | See Source »

...effort in Somalia displays an attractive American tendency: the impulse to construct idealistic policy out of generous feelings. The danger is that such international idealism may be shallow and short-lived, a sort of sentimentality of the privileged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Good Intentions: In Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism . | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

...hasn't happened yet, but we can dream, can't we? Sleek hardwood floors. Open, airy space. Bottles of pretty liquids set charmingly against soothing, light wood shelves. You can almost smell the construct-your-own-scent counter from the street. For all appearances, this new boutique is to be a sandbox for the stressed yuppie...

Author: By Michael K. Mayo, | Title: Goodbye Pit, Hello Homeopathy | 9/25/1993 | See Source »

...They have to construct an argument to defend themselves," said Paniagua. "But why has there been no effort to make Asians, Hispanics and Native Americans part of the program...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: Feds Investigate Scholar's Charge Against Harvard | 8/6/1993 | See Source »

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