Word: kind
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...even these uncertainties haven't dissuaded the online therapists. "You take risks sometimes when you do this kind of work," says Jeanne Rust, who runs the eating-disorder website edrecovery.com "I decided to do that, because some of these people would never get into therapy if I didn't help them...
Meanwhile, over at the 4DRulers booth, president Joel Huenink is cheerily touting the virtues of his new game Gore, which revolves around a battle for scarce energy resources in a post-apocalyptic world. "There's kind of a bloodbath fighting over it, so that's why we call it Gore," he explains helpfully. Does it have a lot of, you know, gore? "It will." He beams. Then he notices the press badge...
...fast: any explicit instruction in the Ten Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words...
Ricky Martin is a fresh face, but he is not an entirely new one. For 15 years now the 27-year-old singer has enjoyed a kind of second-tier, ESPN2 level of fame: he was a member of the teen group Menudo, he once co-starred in Les Miserables on Broadway, has appeared on the ABC soap General Hospital. The cultural wave Martin is riding--Latin pop--we must admit, is also not an entirely new phenomenon. Salsa, rumba, mambo and other Latin musical forms have made inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie...
Anthony's own English-language album, judging from an early listen, sounds extremely promising. What makes him great is his commitment to make vocal art, not simply trendy entertainment. Martin, of course, succeeds by doing the opposite. His new CD is not high art, but it is the kind of relentlessly affable confection that transcends radio formats, crosses generations and sells like crazy. Lopez, too, is well positioned. Her voice is slight, but then again, so is Madonna's. Lopez's talent lies in its diversity--she sings, she can act, and, as a former In Living Color "Fly Girl...