Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smarter than adults give them credit for. I also think that they aren't any more innocent than adults. Maybe that doesn't need to be said when we are dealing with the stuff we are dealing with now, but I felt there's something wrong with the idea that teenagers are morally pure and corrupted by hypocritical adults. And I think Election shows us how kids have to deal with moral dilemmas just as difficult as the ones adults deal with...
...survey, Dovey also asked when women thought lingerie had been invented. She says, the results show that "no one had any idea...
...Ultimately, Episode 1 fails because of a dramatic fallacy inherent in the idea of a prequel. Where the original Star Wars told a moving, visceral story, Episode I indulges curiosity...
...while there, Republicans had a good idea: Take Bill Clinton's $6 billion request for Kosovo funds and double it, burnishing the GOP's pro-defense reputation and supporting the troops too. But soon, Clinton's expected signature began to sound like a dinner bell, and by the time negotiations on the "emergency funding" bill wound up Thursday night, the special interests had piled on. Now it's a sloppy $14.7 billion porker -- complete with a controversial permit for a gold mine on a pristine Washington State mountain and $3 million to aid commercial reindeer herders in Alaska. It could...
...doomsayers are right and the worst-case Cold War II with China comes to pass, the U.S. will at least have a good idea of how their nukes work. Burrowing deeper into the contents of a pair of top-secret reports on China's alleged nuclear espionage, the New York Times reports that Beijing has indeed put some of those stolen secrets to use -- on a small, mobile ICBM called the Dong Feng-31, expected to be ready for deployment as early as 2002 or 2003. "The DF-31 ICBM will give China a major strike capability that will...