Word: effects
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...What effect it will ultimately have on rock is still unfolding. A passage in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five describes a race of aliens who have transcended time. Past, present and future exist all at once for them. These aliens "look at all the different moments just the way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains...
...world in vignettes, making regions characters in a global mini-series (and paying ample attention to non-Western areas). It eschews Ken Burnsian still lifes for a tarantella of computer animation, film clips, re-enactments and folk performances, whirling impatiently like the dervishes and dancers it uses to maximum effect. This mix can shock us into seeing the present in the past, as when Isaacs crosscuts modern Italian hipsters and preening Renaissance Florentines. The conventional re-enactments, however, are like a forced march to colonial Williamsburg...
...remind his fellow citizens of their enduring political, economic and cultural links to the U.S. The two of us--along with a retinue of TV technicians--spent a fascinating day at my home in Westchester County, N.Y., discussing this and other matters. Our day together had a great effect on me personally--and I believe a positive impact on Japanese attitudes toward the U.S.--for it gave me a deeper understanding of Akio's lively intelligence, his enormous grasp of world affairs and his wide-ranging knowledge of art. He had a profound commitment to international cooperation from his years...
...HOME BY 10 While a national debate rages over the effect of media depictions of violence on America's children, a new study in the journal Pediatrics finds that though TV has a negative influence, what more profoundly promotes violent behavior is being a victim of, or witness to, real violence at school, in the neighborhood or at home. Parents can help reduce youth violence by taking seriously their kids' complaints about persistent abuse from siblings or bullies, by knowing who their kids' friends are, and by insisting they be home on time...
Changing the poverty line also threatens to have an effect on America?s self-image: A family making $18,000 this year could be pushed under the line if a higher threshold is established. This means millions more families suddenly become "poor," and, as a result, the country?s widely accepted affluence and the shrinking of its poor population are called into question. The future of the Census Bureau?s investigation may depend primarily on semantics. "The Census Bureau is asking ?What is poor today??" says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. "This is a qualitative shift; we live...