Word: mania
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Three studies on children who were depressed before puberty show that as adults they had a higher rate of antisocial behavior, anxiety and major depression than those who experienced their first depressive episode as teens. "Prepubertal depression does occur, and those who get it are more susceptible to [the] mania [of bipolar disorder] later," says Dr. John March, director of the program on pediatric psychopharmacology at Duke University. "The earlier you get it, the more likely you will develop chronic depressive and anxiety symptoms...
...spontaneously on their campuses. Some headed reflexively for school flagpoles, as they had back in September while participating in the massive exercise in evangelical solidarity called See You at the Pole. Rallies planned for other purposes morphed into Littleton remembrances. At a long-planned April 24 jamboree by Teen Mania in Pontiac, Mich., speaker after speaker preached to a throng of 73,000 on Cassie's life and death (she once attended a Teen Mania meeting), and thousands signed an enormous condolence card. The same thing happened all over the U.S. during observances of the National Day of Prayer...
...American secularism. At Cassie's funeral, her pastor said she was in "the martyrs' hall of fame." She has been compared to the early female saints Perpetua and Felicity, and her interrogation by her murderer recalls Christian persecutions throughout history. But for youngsters the most important thing, explained Teen Mania attendee Heather Miller, 18, is that "a lot of martyrs have been older, and you don't hear about teens." (An exception, Joan of Arc, drew a nice audience for CBS last week...
...latest online player to offer retail investors a small portion of stock in initial public offerings, before the new issues leap 500% on their market debuts. To participate, you'll need to have a hefty $100,000 in your account, and a hearty appetite for risk--despite the recent mania, most IPOs turn out to be losers...
...Suburban mania coincided with the swell in popularity of the game of golf--and what a swell game golf is! The development of golf and of the turf covering the courses where it is played (which the government has donated millions of dollars to help improve), go hand in hand. In 1897, a senior researcher at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, linked closely with the U.S. Golf Association, wrote the following influential words: "Nothing is more beautiful than a well-kept lawn . . . Lawns are the most fascinating and delightful features in landscape gardening, and there is nothing which more strongly...