Word: mentality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems of sending a spacecraft to Mars and bringing it back to earth pale when compared with the challenge of keeping its human cargo safe and in peak physical and mental condition. The medical consequences of long periods of weightlessness are still not fully understood. And radiation, says NASA's Michael Bungo, "is going to be a showstopper." Once beyond the earth's atmosphere and magnetic field, which protects terrestrial life from most lethal radiation, crew members would be vulnerable to cosmic rays. These highly energetic particles travel through space at close to the speed of light and can produce...
...designers will not "help fight the battle for usability," then, he urges, frustrated consumers should write to manufacturers, complain to stores and buy well-designed products even if they do cost a bit more. "And enjoy yourself. Walk around the world examining the details of design," he says. "Give mental prizes to those who practice good design: send flowers. Jeer those who don't: send weeds...
...asserted, was all for exploiting the case to get a political protest movement going and boasted that the controversy would make them the "biggest niggers in New York." A new wrinkle developed at week's end, when McKinnon's cousin, Alvin McKinnon, revealed that Perry had a history of mental problems. Alvin, a Sharpton supporter, said his cousin "had popped the cork again." Other Sharpton aides, however, were said to be on the verge of corroborating Perry McKinnon's charges...
Despite his mental instability, Jerry, like Grandma, seems to speak with Albee's voice, attacking Peter's satisfied docility, moral cowardice and lack of conviction. The passage of time, however, has made Peter (and Daddy) into easy and common targets. It's not surprising these days to see a condemnation of Yuppies, which is what Peter is, 1950s-style. Also outdated are Jerry's use of the word "colored" instead of "Black" and his attempt to shock Peter with a brief and sketchy account of the single homosexual experience of his youth. If Peter stood for the values...
Despite their anguish, most husbands remain steadfastly supportive of their wives, regarding them as temporarily insane and not responsible for their actions. But as a legal defense, insanity as a result of postpartum mental illness is not a surefire success. While some women, including Thompson, Remington and Bartek, have received sympathetic hearings on such grounds and gone free, others have been sent to prison. Householder spent 22 months in jail; Comitz is now serving an eight-to-20-year sentence. Both women had told police complex kidnaping stories. Comitz had so completely convinced herself of the truth of her alibi...