Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This new preoccupation with the physical self has banished cigarettes, once a staple of American culture, to furtive corners. Personally, this is fine by me, but it is startling how the Surgeon General's admonitions have become effective only with the coming of the new purity. It is also curious how the 80's have been a time of rising drinking ages and new heights in anti-drug hysteria (only cocaine, with its connotations of physical "acceleration" and personal wealth, has any style left...
AFTERGOOD naturally was curious about how likely the worst-case scenario was. He asked to see a different study, which would have answered his question but again was turned down. The DOE wrote back that release of this information "could reasonably be expected to cause damage to the national security." The DOE now has more detailed safety assessments, but these too are being withheld...
...classes, which are separate from the ordinary high school science curriculum, tend to attract curious students and science buffs. Still, it is often an uphill battle to disabuse kids of fallacies that have become ingrained even by age 17. "You want to defend your old misconceptions, but you can't," says Matthew Liebman, a STAR student at Massachusetts' Framingham North High School. Despite the difficulties, preliminary studies by Shapiro's team suggest that STAR students have a better grasp of basic scientific concepts and mathematics than students in ordinary courses. "We're definitely making headway and in directions we hadn...
...Herald Tribune four years ago, gloves flowed in, from Europe to India: leather gloves, driving gloves, fleece-lined gloves, children's gloves, even work gloves. Some people send pairs, but most often they send only rights or lefts (the rights outnumber the lefts by four to one, for some curious reason). Some also send cash, which is quickly returned "because I am not an organized charity...
...arrived with lox, bagel and cream cheese. Don't look at the bill, just sign it.) Um, yes. Beer in the fridge. The stereo is playing. It is easy to forget that this ocean liner is beached in New York City. Or that it is beached at all; a curious rocking motion has commenced...