Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powerless, they were content, it seemed, to party on in a Wayne's Netherworld, one with more antiheroes--Kurt Cobain, Dennis Rodman, the Menendez brothers--than role models. The label that stuck was from Douglas Coupland's 1991 novel, Generation X, a tale of languid youths musing over "mental ground zero--the location where one visualizes oneself during the dropping of the atomic bomb: frequently a shopping mall...
PREEMIE PROBLEMS Very premature babies fed intravenously with calcium gluconate--a life-saving formula--may wind up with impaired mental development. It contains aluminum, which could be bad for babies' brains...
...should reading period be done away with, or modified? For many students, the cushion of time before exams does allow added digestion of course materials and a well-deserved mental break, while Faculty are able to assign longer, more comprehensive projects bringing together focal points in their courses...
Fencing at Harvard requires mental toughness of the toughest sort, as participants must endure a season that lasts from late November all the way into April. For the Harvard women's fencing team, it seemed that every month brought new conquests...
First, the Bears provided a physical barrier for the Crimson to overcome. After two days of exhausting play and two five-game nailbiters, the Crimson were noticeably fatigued. Furthermore, after already losing to Brown the day before, the Bears presented a mental stumbling block as well...