Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother and father moved the family every year or so, from little towns in California's San Joaquin Valley to places in Arkansas and Oklahoma no bigger than a post- office box. Dad departed when Toni was twelve, telling the kids just before he left that he was in fact their stepfather. Their real father turned out to be a man who dropped by from time to time, always introduced as a "family friend...
...women would suggest that Raisa sets a realistic standard for the future. Quite the contrary. The hopes and dreams of most Soviet women in fact sound startlingly unemancipated to the Western ear. They rarely challenge the status quo, which entitles men to be waited on, first by their mothers, then by their wives and female employees. Nor do women question the concept that they should assume responsibility for all child-related matters, whether that involves family planning, child rearing or, if a marriage breaks up, child support. Says Tanya, a Moscow teacher who, like many of the women interviewed, requested...
...legalizing drugs, though widely believed and acted on as a practical matter by most Americans, is what might be called the Dionysian argument. Look, it says, the desire for an occasional artificial escape from the human condition is part of the human condition. It is not ignoble. In fact it's healthy. Yes, yes, within limits...
...repeat: the mere fact that getting high on marijuana brings pleasure to the vast majority of its adult users is not sufficient reason to legalize it. The majority of people probably could drive safely at 75 or 80 m.p.h., but we can't custom-make the rules for each individual and it's the minority at greatest risk we have to worry about. If a significant minority cannot use marijuana safely, if grass frequently leads to more dangerous drugs, if it has dangerous long-term side effects of its own, if the problems of keeping it from children are insurmountable...
...evidence supports what Floyd knew. In fact, just in time for the basketball playoffs, Stanford Psychologist Amos Tversky released a study that seems to make a myth of the shooter's hot hand. "Very often," says Tversky, "the search for explanation in human affairs is a rejection of randomness." But randomness has a difficult time explaining Larry Bird. Stumbling through the lane in the deciding game of Boston's series with Atlanta, Bird made such an improbable wrong-handed hook shot that he demanded the ball back on the next play, explaining later, "I wanted...