Word: feel
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...particularly striking among minorities. In the presidential elections of 1992, 64.5 percent of white women and 62.6 percent of white men cast ballots, compared to 56.7 percent and 50.8 percent among blacks respectively, and only 30.9 percent and 26.8 percent respectively among Hispanics. Minorities do not vote because they feel they can achieve little and certainly will not gain political representation...
...rowed much better today than in our practices this last week. The Empacher (E1) sets up better than the Vespoli boat (although from 2-seat I can still feel it leaning to port a little), and my seat doesn't stick like it did in the other boat. Tonight as I'm going to sleep I'll be telling myself, "Sit up, arms away quick, jump on the catch, race...
Kids today feel safer than they did five years ago? Did the pollsters feed the data into the wrong hole? These are the questions no doubt running through the minds of parents and educators as they mull the counterintuitive results of a New York Times/CBS poll, released Wednesday, which shows that the vast majority of American teenagers feel somewhat safe, safe or extremely safe in their schools. In 1994, 40 percent of teenagers worried they would be a victim of violence in school or on the street. Today, only 24 percent fear for their safety. (The results are virtually identical...
...many older Americans, all this sounds deeply suspicious. How can kids feel increasingly safe in a country where school shootings have become almost as routine as fire drills? There doesn?t seem to be any one reason for teenagers? relative calm; rather, it's a combination of practical and psychological factors. In the wake of Columbine et al, schools have bulked up security ? in part to quell students? fears of violence, but also to calm parental nerves. So maybe it?s not such a surprise that many students feel safe: Surveillance cameras, metal detectors and daily pat-downs do tend...
...join a chat room, his or her Internet habits can be captured, analyzed and sold ? and parents could find their offspring bombarded with all sorts of marketing malarkey. The new restrictions, which delineate the Children?s Online Privacy Protection Act passed last year in Congress, may make parents feel a bit more in control of their children?s time online. In fact, the restrictions are bound to make just about everybody ? except marketers and advertisers ? feel good, says TIME Digital editor Lev Grossman. "Everyone?s in favor of protecting children, and although these roadblocks might slow the progression...