Word: mental
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...searches for meaning in life, that had the greatest impact on me. Seeing this film was one of the most intense emotional experiences of my teenage years. From then until the time, many years later, when I played a small part in his film Dreams, my admiration for the mental agility and physical energy of this great master (who at 82 was still climbing ladders on the set) never waned. While it saddens me that he is gone, I know that his genius--which allowed him to achieve much, much more than most of us could ever hope for--will...
...That mental edge and the confidence of winningteam means that Harvard remains a favorite despitethe recent bad luck...
...combination of these factors suggests that Bulldog mental errors will be few and far between...
...average students get handed this raw deal? Part of the answer lies in special education, which was established in the mid-'70s to cover physically disabled students and children with severe mental handicaps. And over the past 20 years, the ranks of another group covered by the law--students classified as learning disabled--have ballooned. In 1975 there were 800,000 public-school students (1.8% of the total) classified as learning disabled; today that number is 2.6 million, or 4.3%. It costs $9 billion a year to educate learning-disabled kids...
...more studies of online usage than anyone else I know. "Color me baffled," she says. Hoffman believes the report is critically flawed. For starters, there was no control group--composed of, say, people outside Pittsburgh. Teenagers were the largest group in the sample, and we all know about their mental health. Even the researchers admitted that their results could not be "generalized," meaning you can't extrapolate to the whole population...