Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEXosaurus $25; K'NEX; ages 8 and up Is your kid too smart for lego? K'NEX requires greater mental and digital dexterity, and the results are more inspired. The K'NEXosaurus set makes three different critters, all of which move like living things (Can you say vertebrate?). Best of all, the K'NEX pieces can be combined any old way, so your child can take evolution into his or her own hands...
...fatal about 10 percent of the time, and nearly 50 percent of Group B strep infants suffer long-term damage ranging from seizures to mental retardation as a result of the infection...
...they are caught in the grip of a really dumb idea. He thinks all his problems in life derive from his inability to stay out of the beds of sexually desirable but otherwise destructive women. He decides instead to form a companionate liaison with a woman who is his mental equal, but is otherwise--how to put this gently?--a bowwow. Rose, we are to understand, is so desperate that she goes along with him, thinking that once they're married his resistance to her will break down...
...article traced Tadesse's mental state during her college years and contained reprints of her diary entries prior to the crime...
Cineplexes will turn into pre-med lecture halls for the study of leukemia (Marvin's Room, with Meryl Streep and Robert De Niro) and mental illness (Shine, the acclaimed Australian film about pianist David Helfgott). There also will be political seminars on intolerance (The Crucible, with Winona Ryder and Daniel Day-Lewis) and the First Amendment as it applies to porn peddlers (The People vs. Larry Flynt, with Woody Harrelson and Courtney Love...