Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family at least twice a week, eyeballing the kids for signs of neglect, offering counsel on parenting and managing the home and keeping the faith. "They helped me believe in myself," Mayes says, "to realize that anything was possible." John Jones, the children's father, had learned to smoke crack at the age of 16 from his own father and had spent years in jail after stealing to support his habit. Painfully withdrawn, he says, "I've been doing a little talking now." And planning: "I always wanted to own my own fish market, and now I want to live...
...psychology, expounded on parenting. "Who do these kids learn from?" he asked. "Their parents!" they answered in unison. "Yes," Stokes insisted. "If we as parents are screaming and hollering and disorganized, what can we expect our children to be?" The message hit home for Ozzie Williams, 56, a former crack addict who is rearing two teenage sons. Williams, now a born-again Christian, said his kids were "used to being yelled at. I learned to tone myself down." Churchworkers helped him find housing, furniture, psychiatric counseling and tutoring...
...laid-back Larrieux. Instead, her voice evokes the gently aching style of Sade, or Beth Gibbons of the British band Portishead. The songs here are similarly subdued and flow casually along, like the wistful Hey U and the jaunty Ride. Occasionally, however, they take on harsh subjects such as crack addiction, as on the softly funky 10 Minute High. "Everybody tells her to stop," sings Larrieux. "She would try/ But nobody gave her a good reason...
...SOLUTION WAS TO supplement the rocket's power with three "gravity assists," first from Venus, which Galileo skimmed around in a "crack-the-whip" maneuver that boosted its velocity and flung it back toward Earth, and then from Earth itself, which it swooped by twice, passing less than 200 miles from the ground before finally picking up sufficient speed to make it all the way to Jupiter...
MOST PEOPLE TAKE THE SILVER FILLings in their mouth for granted. As long as their dental work doesn't crack or fall out, they are happy to leave well enough alone. But over the past couple of decades, it has become popular among some followers of alternative medicine to have the old fillings removed--a process that is not only expensive but also often painful. The theory is that the fillings slowly poison the body by leaching out mercury that was mixed with silver to make the amalgam. Hundreds of dentists in the U.S. offer amalgam extractions as a profitable...