Word: massed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kids are smarter and hipper than the boomers in their prime, why aren't they changing the world? You already know the easy answers. AIDS, harder drugs, pocket-size weapons of mass destruction, global warming, economic scarcity--the world today doesn't lend itself to simplistic oppositions or easy optimism. But beyond that, the new counterculture is basically postpolitical and tribalized. The TAZ movement eschews changing the world in favor of finding some liberated space, or even a liberated moment, within it. And from goths to rastas to ravers to slackers, the focus of countercultural tribes is on evolving alternative...
...rather than penalized for this conservative stance. In due course, the validity of the theory of separate intellectual capacities will be judged by scientists, its utility by educators. I am optimistic about their verdicts. HOWARD GARDNER, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education Graduate School of Education Harvard University Cambridge, Mass...
...reached this state. Single-sex education works because it gives girls a few valuable years in which to recover confidence and feel that they can make a difference in a culture that is still dominated by male thinking. JEANNIE NORRIS, Head of School Miss Hall's School Pittsfield, Mass...
While it may take another century to fully understand the Taino culture, it should not take as long to eradicate the myth of Columbus as a hero. HALLEY ALLEN Holden, Mass...
Gillette wants to jazz up your daily routine with its new $5 Oral-B CrossAction, the most expensive mass-market toothbrush ever sold. Gillette claims the brush removes 25% more plaque than its leading competitor with angled bristles that penetrate deeper between teeth and a PowerTip to reach back teeth. The thick, rubberized handle may be easier to hold, but it's too wide for most toothbrush holders. Due out in early...