Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what kind of corsage could you make up for me?" he asked of the clerk when his turn came. The other customers had no way of knowing that the newcomer needed the corsage for a high school father-daughter dance, a real treat for a returning expatriate. Ah, good old American sociability, he thought. What a relief after some of those gloomy European schools! "Wha?" said the clerk, a young man with a big mustache...
...about twelve. He himself had been molested at the age of six, first by his father and then by a twelve-year-old friend. Says the boy: "My father used to beat my mom all the time. That makes me kind of angry. He was always out partying, getting high. My fantasy is making him suffer. First I'd shoot him in the kneecaps and let him suffer for about an hour, screaming. Then I'd shoot him in the nuts and let him suffer some more, and then I'd put a bullet through his head...
...benefit from improved sex-education programs that explore the emotional as well as the mechanical aspects of sex. Some schools have begun offering special courses in preventing violence. A ten-session curriculum, designed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the Massachusetts commissioner of public health, is being used in several high schools in Boston, Detroit and Denver. "We tell them anger is potentially constructive but they need to learn how to handle it," explains Prothrow-Stith. Students examine how fights begin and analyze videotapes of arguments...
...easily be undermined by today's popular culture. The messages that blare from stereos, TVs and movie screens amount to a second education for the young. And much more money goes into the development of this after-school curriculum than goes into education. Rock * stars earn millions, but a high-school teacher is lucky to get $30,000 a year...
...study, reported last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, followed 133 men without AIDS antibodies who continued to engage in high-risk sexual activity. A team led by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, found that of 31 who carried the AIDS virus, 27 had not produced antibodies up to three years after the virus was detected. While the study raises questions about the effectiveness of current screening tests, which zero in on AIDS antibodies and not the virus itself, there is a bright side: some infected people may remain healthy for longer than was previously...