Word: minds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure, some economic incentives are handed out for a seemingly worthwhile public purpose. The tax breaks that companies receive to locate in inner cities come to mind. Without them, companies might not invest in those neighborhoods. However well intended, these subsidies rarely produce lasting results. They may provide short-term jobs but not long-term employment. And in the end, the costs outweigh any benefits...
What the Polynesians believed--and what many Americans now believe too--is that the lowly kava root has mind-altering effects. Prepared and consumed properly, it is said to alleviate stress, ease melancholy and generally elevate mood--all without addiction or hangover. Sound too good to be true? That hasn't stopped supermarkets, drugstores, health-food stores and discount chains like K Mart from stocking up on kava capsules, droplets and tea bags--or consumers from eagerly snapping them up. Kava sales in these stores jumped from barely a trickle to $3 million last year, and should double...
...share of scoops, taking news tips wherever we might find them--and working through many other sources to confirm them and add context. Most weeks I am happy with the results, although we also have some scalps on our belt (this summer's infamous Tailwind story immediately comes to mind) that I wish weren't there. But along with the scoops and the stories of the week, we have devoted substantial resources to special reports that take you behind the headlines so you can understand how our society really works...
...loops and lashes that resulted have a grace and energy that his labored hand drawing never reached. Then there was the pouring, the overlay, one color bleeding into another, producing marbled effects, mists, separations, spots and speckles, each with its element of chance, but all controlled by the prepared mind that chance favors. And the retouching and linkages, done with a brush. "Glory be to God for dappled things!" the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once exclaimed, and that's what crosses one's mind in front of such works as One, 1950, or Lavender Mist: Number...
...Clementine finally deigned to take her first E.T.-like steps. But this time, rather than record 90 minutes of raw, uncut video--which, let's not pull any sentimental punches here, would be unwatchable beyond the first two minutes--I decided to make a real movie. I had in mind something that was edited--with transitions, a sound track and a voice-over; something that would be amusing to watch even for people who are not Clembo's grandparents. And I wanted to make...