Word: karens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Karen Tumulty...
...evening also included a series of 30-second Heisenberg Certainty Lectures featuring as speakers Featherstone, Lipscomb, Karen Hopkins, creator of the "Studmuffins of Science" calendar, and a live chicken...
...Karen is a Ph.D. student; the women are her subjects in a study on HIV risk prevention. All of them got into the study as a result of responding to a questionnaire in which they revealed that they were in some way at risk for contracting HIV. Most of them are unemployed and on welfare...
...Karen seems to genuinely sympathize with the woman in her study: "It's so hard for some of these women to express themselves," she tells me afterwards, detailing childhoods filled sometimes with violence, more often simply missing the background in social skills like self-presentation that so many other people take for granted...
Without doubt, the environment here in East Baltimore is different from the sheltered one in which I grew up. In one lesson, in which Karen goes over parts of the female anatomy, one woman pipes up, recognizing a term--that's the one the dirty old man on the corner used to say to us when we walked down the street--and I try to think about what it's like to be a little girl in a place where such incidents could be part of daily life. Occasionally, one of the women droops slightly--definitely methadone, thinks Janice...