Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There must be something magical about the decade that keeps romancing American pop culture. How else explain the resurrection of Afros, polyester and funk in movies, music...
...baseball player spits in the face of an umpire and is permitted to compete in the play-offs. At the same time, a young child who innocently kissed a classmate is suspended from school for sexual harassment! Any suggestions on how to explain this one to the kids? DAVID K. HASPEL Los Angeles...
...AFRICAN AMERICANS who must suffer discrimination in silence have higher blood pressure than those who can afford to challenge racist treatment. The finding may explain why blacks as a group have such high rates of stroke, heart disease and kidney failure...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Let's visit a classroom, where Alabama's future will be determined, and explain to those children and their parents why, in the richest country on earth, we can't find money for Head Start and school lunches...
...swaths of farmland, wealthy suburbs, military bases and resort towns. Candidates for statewide office actually meet a large segment of the electorate during the campaign, and in tiny Georgetown, the Thursday after the election, the losing candidate rides alongside the winner in the "Return Day" parade. This intimacy may explain why the major statewide offices are evenly split between the parties. It seems Delaware, the First State, pays more attention to personality than partisanship...