Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Loyalty. Honor. Courage. Fortitude. Ideals that, sadly, aren't revered or seen much in our world anymore. The comic book warriors of the "Star Wars" films indulge in these virtues with abandon upon stages breathtaking in their special effects. The Jedi, strong in the "Force," battle the Dark Side, i.e., the evil very present in the world, in all worlds, and across galaxies and time. The success of the execution of this is unparalleled--attracting theatergoers of all ages and points of view, from Harvard undergraduates to their sometimes Luddite parents...
...issue-resolution teams" are assigned to push and cajole their counterparts into combining everything from supplies to research. Every time there is disagreement, the integration process for that group is halted until a solution is found. Progress is tracked in the "war room," a nondescript office down a dark second-floor corridor in Daimler's imposing brown headquarters in Stuttgart...
Almost as a lark, the investigators decided to ask the parents of 479 of their patients about the nighttime lighting in their children's bedrooms. It was a shot in the dark, but what they found was truly eye opening. While 10% of the kids who slept in darkness before age two later became nearsighted, the figure rose to 34% among those who slept with a night light, and an astonishing 55%--nearly a fivefold increase--among those who slept with the room lights on. It may be that eyes need a period of darkness to develop properly. Bedroom lighting...
...additional 20 years to sort out all the scientific issues, which won't do you much good if there's a baby in your life right now. Since the proposed remedy isn't at all onerous, however, and since most kids don't develop a fear of the dark until after age two, it seems reasonable to turn the lights out in your infant's room...
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold could not have killed 13 other people and themselves if they'd simply been armed with baseball bats or knives. Mass murder requires weaponry that kills rapidly from a distance. Why do we make it so easy for those with dark fantasies to acquire the weapons needed to act them out? CAROL GRIZZARD Pikeville...