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...inner cities, where weapons are treated like household appliances, the lessons in cruelty usually start at home. Psychologist Charles Patrick Ewing, author of Kids Who Kill, has found that many young people committing seemingly motiveless killings were themselves sexually or physically abused. "To brutalize another human being, a youngster has to have been brutalized himself," he says. Ewing finds that teenage murderers often don't recall, or won't admit, that they were once victims. "A street tough would rather go to the gas chamber than admit to having been beaten or sodomized by a male relative...
What makes the Karolinska study particularly significant is the thoroughness of its design. The investigation encompassed nearly 500,000 people. By restricting their analysis to high-power transmission lines, the researchers could easily calculate the field strength for each household studied and be assured that the lines were the dominant source of electromagnetic radiation. Since field strength drops off dramatically with distance and all the houses were in the same corridor, investigators could also be fairly certain that the only difference between exposed and unexposed homes was proximity to the lines, not other environmental factors...
...stayed in a stifling marriage in order to keep her children around her all the time, but she would not have become wiser, nor would she have bloomed with the knowledge of her courage. My mother and father could have put on a facade of a traditional two-parent household to hide the hate and resentment. That, according to dear George and Dan, would have kept the moral fiber of the country intact...
...minutes to one and Crystal pulled out. "It was awful," says Crystal. "Gilda ((Radner)) walked me to the elevator. I was crying all the way home on the Long Island Railroad, the tears running down the makeup." While friends Chevy Chase and John Belushi went on to become household names, he had to settle for a spot on ABC's wacky series Soap, playing television's first prime-time homosexual. Then came the ill-conceived Billy Crystal Comedy Hour in 1982, which NBC promoted as a male version of the Carol Burnett show. "We were up against The Love Boat...
...family relationships grow more complex, role confusion is bound to become epidemic. More battles will be fought over household turf, inheritance and rivalries for affection. Even incest, long considered an absolute taboo, will become a more complicated issue because the fracturing of families will make it harder to define. If nonrelatives within a family have sex, is that incest or something else...