Word: ills
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ill-intentioned ones said this is all a bunch of political garbage and there is no intellectual value," said Suleiman. "The well-intentioned questions, I think, are real and were real at the time...
Sure. And writers too, of course, drawing what Hemingway used to call juice from all those ill-fitting depictions. One of the better new novelists, Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). His latest, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken--stolen, actually--from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled...
Working with New York State and nonprofit groups, the two men have developed a promising design manual--now circulating nationwide--for building small, affordable efficiency units for the mentally ill homeless. The concept is "low tech, low budget," says Gran, but it uses "materials, colors and space to create a pleasing, comfortable, noninstitutional environment." Residents living in New York City prototypes give them thumbs...
...KADLEC, TIME's newest columnist, spent a decade covering Wall Street as a reporter, editor and columnist for USA Today (with a year off to edit the ill-fated St. Louis Sun newspaper and obsess over his beloved Cardinals). Kadlec's Money in Motion column will mix financial advice with stories about the personalities of today's Wall Street, which he describes as somewhat kinder and gentler than in the greed-filled '80s yet "still plenty exciting with the push to be global and America's renewed interest in mutual funds." This week he offers a skeptic's take...
Using the example of tobacco, which Weil said fell sharply in popularity after its ill health effects were released, Weil argued that the U.S. could change the perception and demand for other drugs as well...