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Word: mentality (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as worrisome is the threat to mental health. Drug users are prone to moodiness, depression, irritability and what are known as "roid rages." Ex- user Darren Allen Chamberlain, 26, of Pasadena, Calif., describes himself as an "easygoing guy" before picking up steroids at age 16. Then he turned into a teen Terminator. "I was doing everything from being obnoxious to getting out of the car and provoking fights at intersections," he says. "I couldn't handle any kind of stress. I'd just blow. You can walk in my parents' house today and see the signs -- holes in doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Shortcut to The Rambo Look | 1/30/1989 | See Source »

...Sharfstein's unenlightened argument fail to take into account the circumstances which surround many of the issues to which the "animal rights movement" addresses itself; that is based on criteria which are in many respects more relevant to this discussion--the issues of the qualitive capability for significant mental anguish and pain, and the animals' dependence on humans (as a result of circumstances created by humans), for example--animals may indeed be considered equivalent to humans. Yet the relative significance of the lives of different species of animals need not be the central question; rather, one must question the extent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Animal Rights | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...complement this athletic prowess on the ice, Trotman has demonstrated such skill and mental agility on the water that she was voted the 1987-1988 Outstanding Woman Collegiate Sailor. Other accomplishments include winning the New England Single-Handed Championships in 1987 and 1988, winning the Women's Nationals and competing in the World Championships...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trot-ting on to Your Wheaties Box | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

Experimenting with every tack in life, Trotman has seemed to succeed in most of her endeavors. Although she admits that she is "a spaz in basketball," she displays the inherent athletic ability and mental endurance so intrinsic in Olympians. She says she loves all sports and that they'll always be an important part of her life, but hockey and sailing are her favorites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trot-ting on to Your Wheaties Box | 1/23/1989 | See Source »

...majority of the deaths under investigation were described by the authorities as suicides, often involving alcohol abuse. Others were the result of physical or mental illness. More than half occurred while the victim was in police custody rather than in prison, and many took place within two or three hours of confinement. Among the alleged suicides, details of the deaths are often hauntingly similar. Eddie Murray, 21, hanged himself in 1981 while in custody in the New South Wales hamlet of Wee Waa. Loyed Boney, 28, was found hanged in his cell at Brewarrina, New South Wales, in 1987. Bernard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia A Cry of Desperation Why do Aborigines die in police custody? | 1/9/1989 | See Source »

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