Word: movement
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Urban Outfitters appears to be at the forefront of the "bra-strap headband" movement. Theirs are available at the "accessories" shelf in the women's section and come in two styles. First is the traditional bra strap sewn together at the ends, and the second consists of two smaller multicolored straps that link in the back. The visual effect is difficult to describe-think flower child meets urban grunge. The headbands cost $8, and the woman working in the store, who was not wearing one, said they seemed to be selling very quickly...
...teachings of various "mind over matter" schools of medicine have traditionally been viewed with extreme skepticism by the Western medical extablishment. Especially in Boston, such dogma smacks of Mary Baker Eddy s Christian Science Movement (especially in the light of recent highly publicized cases where Christian Scientist parents let their children die for want of medical care). Up until the 1960s, the accepted model of how pain worked was the one proposed by Descartes in the 17th Century. According to Descartes, a painful sensation is strictly a physical and mechanical phenomenon, as simple as pressing a piano key and getting...
...back problems, doctors are increasingly faced with patients experiencing excrutiating pain that has no discernable physical origins. An October article in The New Yorker by Atul Gawande detailed the story of Rowland Scott Quinlan, an architect who experienced back pain so acute that he would vomit and for whom movement was so painful that he would often soil himself instead of getting up to go to the bathroom. But X-rays, C.T. scans and myriad other tests revealed nothing that could possibly account for the pain. Gawande s article also quoted several studies showing that pain perception varied widely between...
...horrific evil," Wang said. "The 1989 democratic movement has become an emotional burden in my heart...
...Xiao said reaching out to the people would not address the problem directly. The heart of the anti-democratic movement lies in the communist leadership, he said...