Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kids' egocentrism helps explain why they can do something they know to be wrong, immediately try to cover it up, but then fairly quickly get back to the business of being children. Hence after they left Bulger on the tracks, Venables and Thompson went into a video store near Thompson's house and watched cartoons on the telly. As Carr's mother tried frantically and futilely to save her daughter, Kocher went back to playing Nintendo ("If you don't think about it, you won't be sad," he reportedly told other kids, who were crying). And in Chicago last...
...allegedly pushed two-year-old Reggie Clegg from the roof of an apartment building. Under questioning, Julian admitted that he had shoved Reggie from the roof after an argument over a toy car. But the court found that the police hadn't made a necessary "extra effort" to explain to a seven-year-old what his rights were. Still, even if they had illustrated with a Barney doll and all four Teletubbies, he probably would not have understood. That's what being a child means...
...YORK: The markets generally love a little U.S. agression -- it makes oil prices go up. So how to explain the Dow's 250-point plunge Friday? FORTUNE Wall Street writer Bethany McLean says that traders just have too many other things to worry about. "There's a rumor that Venezuela might devalue. Russia looks even shakier today. German banks were battered last night because of their exposure to Russia, and another Japanese bank went under," she says. "There are just too many worries today that the whole crisis is snowballing...
...weighed at 7 lbs., 12 oz. But just after birth her child had weighed 9 lbs., 6 oz. Babies often shed a few ounces in the hours after birth, but not 17% of their body weight. Hospital chief of staff Dr. Thomas Massaro admits the hospital can't explain why the large discrepancy went unnoticed. "We don't understand that," he says, though he is virtually positive there was no accidental switch in this case. "We have very good documentation that the band was properly put on," he says. "I have checked, a dozen other doctors have checked, a dozen...
...market boom has become a crucial source of economic well-being. That helps explain why consumer confidence has soared throughout the '90s even though the average paycheck rose barely until recently. "People who are retired have seen their assets double," says Jon McGeath, who manages the A.G. Edwards & Sons brokerage office in Oakland, Calif. "They've made more money than they ever did working, and it feels terrific...