Word: mays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Psychologists say upwardly mobile Americans who turn to crack share personality traits that may make them vulnerable to the drug's siren call. Dr. Jeffrey Rosecan, director of the Cocaine Abuse Treatment Program at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, sketches a profile of the typical crack user: a man in his 30s or 40s, single or divorced, with a high- pressure job, little inner peace and a history of moderate drug use and heavy drinking. "They're extremists, hard drivers, workaholics," says Rosecan. "With an all-or-nothing personality and a history of drug experimentation...
...atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and gasoline; the gases trap radiation that has come from the sun and that would otherwise escape into space. The result is global warming: over time, sea levels will rise, droughts and floods could become more extreme, and tropical storms may rage more destructively...
...company suggested that a seal on one of the plant's eleven-story-high reactors may have developed a leak, leading to the ignition of a stream of gas. But workers contended that the cloud was so dense that a valve must have been left open. In any case, the disaster dramatized the need for greater concern for safety by the chemical industry. Its lobbyists had persuaded the Bush Administration to remove tougher safety restrictions on such facilities from proposed legislation for renewing the Clean...
...lightest inflection of thought, quick but always controlled, strengthened by brown washes that confirm its structure -- does not always translate to the paintings and frescoes, where it seems heavier and overdetermined. But with Giulio, design and invention were inseparable, and their combination is worn so lightly that one may not realize how difficult were the problems he set for himself. How do you create long processional friezes of figures based on a Roman triumph, as in the Stucco Room at Palazzo Te, without monotonously repeating poses and gestures? How do you cram an imagined temple with such an excessive throng...
...wanted illustrations for his Sonetti Lussuriosi (Salacious Sonnets). Giulio produced 16 drawings, each depicting a handsome couple rutting with the energy of blacksmiths in a forge, and sometimes in ways that would give you, me or Jesse Helms a hernia. These, like so much of Giulio's other work, may have come from a classical prototype: the spintriae, or tokens, stamped with obscene designs that were used for entry to Roman brothels in the second century A.D. The engraver Marcantonio Raimondi turned Giulio's I Modi (Ways, for short) into prints, and in this form they became enormously popular. They...