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Word: helping (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...asserting that music is for all children, not just the gifted or privileged. Her students--and her vocal cords--sometimes pay the price for her passion. "She gets on your case and stuff," says Toussaint Stackhouse, 9, "but I like her the way she is. When we need help, she helps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Maestro Of East Harlem | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

Sport at its best is a microcosm of our species' nobility. But if we revel in watching the grace, skill and determination of men and women, we also can't help noticing when this prism of our society also refracts us in all our prurience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Doctor's Daughter | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...chip is a well-meaning but deeply flawed attempt to help families screen the offerings of a medium run amuck. But there is a low-tech way to do the same thing. Granted, it doesn't have the TV makers or politicians behind it. But I'm thinking that we parents might screen our children's TV viewing by occasionally sitting with them, watching what they watch and making judgments about violence, sexual content, bad language and even gross behavior we'd prefer not to see imitated. When we're not home, we can instruct the sitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The V Chip Arrives | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...turns out MTV has a vault in Hollywood where they keep files on more than 100,000 people under 30. I print this information here in the hopes that conspiracy theorists will get off the U.N.'s back and start freaking out about Viacom. I think this will help my parent company, Time Warner, and thus get me in good with whoever runs this place. This is my version of a business plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A 27-Year-Old Looks Back On Life | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

...levy on each traveler this year to fund preservation efforts such as protecting the Vallee de Mai, a unique palm forest. In a recent study, 80% of Germans said an unspoiled environment was important to them, but only 40% were prepared to pay even $1 extra a day to help protect the environment of their holiday destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Call Of The Wild | 7/12/1999 | See Source »

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