Word: idea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...need structure," says Martinez, whose Straight Edge e-mail pals tell of alienation and disillusionment. Ryan Spellecy, 26, a teaching assistant at the University of Utah and a longtime Straight Edger and pacifist, says the organization constitutes a rebellion against a culture that glorifies heroin chic and the idea that you have to smoke or wear Guess? jeans to be cool...
...Most at risk to develop serious psychological problems after the attack were those who were seriously injured or who had a family member injured or killed ?- and those who refused to think about the incident. And that may be what science gets out of the Oklahoma City tragedy: an idea of whom to help first. For grief researchers, the beaches of Normandy were a laboratory; so were the jungles of Vietnam. The only American war is at home now, and sporadic. Oklahoma City is a horrible way to learn, but for tragedy there are no in-house experiments, just outside...
Imagine moving Capitol Hill and the White House from Washington, D.C., to downtown Manhattan, and you?d have some idea of how German legislators must be feeling. Germany?s government opened for business in Berlin Monday, for the first time since Russian troops raised their flag on the Reichstag in 1945. And, like the press corps assigned to cover it, Germany?s political class is reveling in the decision to move the capital from the sleepy provincial city of Bonn. "I?ve yet to talk to anybody who?s unhappy about the move," says TIME Berlin (formerly Bonn) bureau chief...
When VH1 programming chief Jeff Gaspin came up with the idea for a documentary series that would help resurrect his then flagging network, he didn't anticipate that the show would also help resurrect his musician subjects' careers. But with its addictive human-interest stories of adversity (bankruptcies, addictions, arsons!) and redemption (rehab, comebacks, band reunions!), Behind the Music has done both...
...gamblers, Wall Street can take a while to place its bets. But when it does... Nearly a full week after a tame inflation report made it apparent that the Fed would raise rates once, and just once, when it meets this Tuesday, the markets finally got used to the idea on Monday. The Dow came charging out of the gate to steam up more than 130 points, and after a midafternoon lull sprinted through the tape at 199.15 ? well into record territory. And all this on the eve of a rate hike? Welcome to the "discount" rally...