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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questionable? We will get to that shortly. But first, what is selfesteem anyway? How exactly does one measure this elusive, fairy-dust quality? What it is seems straightforward enough: it is how much one esteems oneself (hence, "self-esteem"). Yet, what a researcher needs is something tangible to measure. So he or she asks such questions as appeared on the AAUW survey. Students were asked, for example, to respond "always true," "usually true," "sometimes true," or "rarely true," to the statement "I am good at a lot of things." But does answering "always true" really mean that one has high...

Author: By Jonathan R. Brooks, | Title: A Question of Self-Esteem | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

Clarkson's high-scoring punch leaves most opponents in the dust, averaging over five goals a game in the league this year. Lamp-lighters like Marko Tuomainen (20 goals-31 assists-51 points), Patrice Robitaille (25-21-46) and Claude Morin (13-33-46) are counted on to find...

Author: By Bradford E. Miller, | Title: No Guarantees In This `Wild, Wacky ECAC' Race | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

...afternoon wound down, Keanu fled to His red Porsche. The sweet pixie dust fragrance of stardom gave way to the smell of freshly-cut grass as the girls sighed and the twinkle was extinguished from their eyes...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: The Stars: Far Away, So Close | 3/2/1995 | See Source »

...like Raster's looks. It's likely he was wandering the streets of Toontown and waving a sign saying WILL ANNOY GROWNUPS FOR FOOD until he was hired by the cable company. He begins flying around the screen, leaving a trail of glowing fairy dust that fades much too slowly for my taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT SIMOLEON CAPER | 3/1/1995 | See Source »

...some reason, I haven't been able to pick up a single book for my new classes this semester. They have been sitting on my bookshelves looking at me disapprovingly and having contests to see which one can collect the most dust. Instead of studying, I've been contemplating the sexiness of Billy Joe, the lead singer of Green Day (What a babe!), and waiting for "When I Come Around" to get played on WFNX. I dunno, I just can't seem to shake the reading period slacker mentality. Besides listen to the radio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: norma knows | 2/9/1995 | See Source »

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