Word: majority
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...parents live in a world of family mood swings, that doesn't mean they are prepared to put their own child on mind-altering drugs. That prospect can lead to major soul searching: Will they be thought less of as parents? And if they do agree to antidepressants, will the child still be the one they know...
...hard for the people closest to children to detect that anything is really wrong. Studies show that parents consistently miss the signs of depression. In one survey by researchers at Ball State and Columbia universities, 57% of teens who had attempted suicide were found to be suffering from major depression. But only 13% of the parents of suicides believed their child was depressed...
...bill would close a major loophole which had allowed juveniles to buy the weapons used in the Littleton shooting. Unfortunately, the G.O.P. measure was not as stringent as the one proposed a day earlier by the Democrats. But it was better than nothing coming from a party which had previously done little more than pay lip service to gun control. The measure is now tied up in the House, where Speaker Dennis J. Hastert (R-III.) has delayed a vote. Hopefully, House Republican efforts to water-down the bill will fail when Hastert allows it to come to a vote...
...this month different from all other months? Our campus is currently overpopulated with organizations, clubs and networks. By the end of our four years, most of us will be trained to introduce ourselves by regurgitating our resumes and activities as the major forms of identification. The boy behind you in line for storage, rather than funny or cute, is the football player from the A.D. The girl on left spends her days with the International Relations Council and Kirkland HoCo. Sometimes we even forget peoples' given names and just refer to each other as "HRO boy" or "the CHANCE chair...
...particular, two major juice companies--Maine-based Fresh Samantha and Cambridge-based Nantucket Nectars--have attracted an enormous following both on campus and beyond, giving a huge boost to their annual sales figures...