Word: depending
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...microchips in these devices often depend on electronic calendars and clocks. If you were a VCR and you suddenly thought it was 1900, you might overload just from the resulting identity crisis...
...chain of associations including colonial exploitation, charity, death and even cannibalism. In his "Insertion" series, Meireles stamped slogans and questions like "Yankee go home" or "What is the place of the work of art?" on currency and Coke bottles which were than reinserted into circulation. Since they depend so heavily on their actual use, these works are unfortunately as difficult to experience in the museum as "Volatile" would be on paper. But we can still imagine the surprise of being handed a "Yankee go home bill" as change in a Brazilian McDonalds...
...REPORT, Feb. 3] should challenge parents and educators to question some popular assumptions about child rearing. Because the brain's greatest growth spurt continues until age 10, and "rich experiences really do produce rich brains," we should strive to give our children a wide variety of experiences rather than depend on artificial delivery systems. That is why learning in the real world is so powerful for young children, and computers, which merely deliver a "virtual" experience, may be appropriate for older students but not younger ones. WILLIAM L. RUKEYSER Woodland, California...
...when asked how they felt about someone they knew having an abortion, a surprising 39 percent of respondents approved, with 32 percent of respondents and 25 percent asserting that the their answers would depend on the specific circumstances...
Such "early detection" is more common at higher income levels, where parents can afford to and often depend on clinical salvation. ADD has become so stylish in recent years that school psychiatrists have picked up on the trend, and the numbers of ADD-diagnosed children has skyrocketed. Consumption has quadrupled in the past decade, and Ritalin use is five times higher in the United States than in any other country. Some medical experts are willing to go so far as to assert that one in every 20 children is ADD, with a significant number of those being ADHD...