Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, some will slip through the cracks and be lured back for more mental punishment, but sooner or later, the grad school gig will become worse than this Doberman-eat-Doberman world. They'll be begging to be thrown into the ring, like those Christians to the lions...
Even so, these tests can spot only visible abnormalities in the 23 pairs of chromosomes we inherit from our parents, such as the extra chromosome associated with Down syndrome, a form of mental retardation, or biochemical errors, such as a reduced level of hex-A enzyme that brings on Tay-Sachs disease, a fatal metabolic disorder. Moreover, the results may be confused by so-called chromosome structural abnormalities--oddball configurations that may or may not have a genetically significant effect, thus exasperating couples who expect clear-cut answers from amniocentesis...
...throw the attention off to the side." Tony LaRussa, his manager at both the A's and the Cardinals, says McGwire has a unique ability to "control his emotions, to stifle them." His best friend on the team, catcher Tom Lampkin, says McGwire "has such control on the mental side. He doesn't let things stew inside him. He puts a cap on it." So as McGwire shattered the most famous record in sports with 70 homers in a season, he didn't embrace the conflict; he transcended...
...mention a "complete waste of time." Apparently years of accolades, knighting ceremonies and Academy Awards have left Tony a little bitter. In an interview with the British tabloid News of the World, Hopkins announced he was "getting out of this ridiculous business," adding that "acting is bad for the mental health." Once a mainstay of Merchant-Ivory productions, Hopkins has more recently appeared in such claptrap as the critically reviled Meet Joe Black. He says his project Titus Andronicus, currently filming in Rome, will be his last (his publicist confirmed his words but expressed hope that he would change...
...employee of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation reports that a patient alleges being assaulted and harassed over a three week period by a manager at the Harvard Square...