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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, being an outcast is only the most recent unpleasant human condition to be cast into a medical context. Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), which has become the popular diagnosis for kids who won't behave, was the first to enter the national consciousness. ADD is treated by drugging hyperactive children with Ritalin...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Learning to Tough it Out | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...teenage motherhood; or perhaps it is just the accepting, enduring clarity and strength of the main character, and the renewal of faith in the human spirit-whatever the case, Porter has uplifted a typically unheralded heroine and established herself as capable of writing with power and grace in a context unbraved by many other authors...

Author: By Ben A. Cowan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Neo-Naturalism's Bittersweet Nativity | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

However, Taylor claimed that James' approach was too narrow and that for many people religious experience occurs in a more social context...

Author: By Charles DE Simone, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Philosopher Taylor Speaks On William James, Religion | 3/19/1999 | See Source »

...noted that without an historical context, the recent surge of extremist attacks on abortion clinics across the country seems to be an aberration, when in fact the violence of the 1990s is part of a "historical continuum of rightwing thought...

Author: By Edward B. Colby, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Author Criticizes 'Contradictions' Of Abortion-Opponent Extremists | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

...which nobody's heard of until now) under a feeble excuse is indicative of a short-sighted view of campus life. Normally, the College should be jumping to endorse precisely this type of social activity--after all, students are interacting with each other in a meaningful and creative context which doesn't require drugs or alcohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of Nerf Guns | 3/18/1999 | See Source »

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