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Word: needfulness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have friendship with homosexuals," he says. "You need to learn that. We can have friendship with people we disagree with." Many of the kids have grown up in conservative homes where gays are rarely spoken of, especially not in exhortations to friendship, and now they sit stone-faced, motionless. Falwell laments the murders of Matthew Shepard, the gay Wyoming student, and Billy Jack Gaither, the gay man clubbed to death and burned in Alabama. Falwell makes clear that, to him, homosexuality is still a sin. But he says Christians must be more vigilant about observing both halves of "that cliche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An End to the Hatred | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...rest of us want to salvage this upcoming New Year's Eve from a monumental letdown, we need to recognize its true ritualistic function. New Year's Eve--and nye-y2k beyond any other--is not a celebration of the future. It's an elegy for the past. As I sit here, on the brink of the fin de millennium, I'm already misty-eyed with nostalgia. I'll miss the 20th century. I really liked it. I liked the abstract art, the 12-tone music, the absurdist theater, the austere furniture, the Manichaean bipolar geopolitics. And so, given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Believe the Hype | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Parents and high schools can make things easier on freshmen by preparing them differently: for example, by teaching them to budget their hours and their dollars. The Harveys think high schools should offer a college-life course to college-bound seniors. Parents need to "focus more on relationship and personal issues and less on how many sheets and towels to take," they say. Many homesick freshmen think they'll be regarded as failures if they come home before Thanksgiving, so parents can help by letting them know they're welcome to return if they feel the need. In the meantime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Freshman Blues | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Great steps forward in technology and medicine--the LASIK procedure is undoubtedly one of them--will always carry some risks. Our patients need accurate information like your report in order to make an informed decision. JEFFREY D. NIGHTINGALE, M.D. New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 1, 1999 | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...largest traffic jam. Asian cities like Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong and Shanghai have become Atlanta. Eager to call attention to their commercial muscle, they all have tallest-building projects. They're like a family that moves into a fancy neighborhood for the first time and feels the need to display in its driveway the most expensive luxury sedan on the block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Tall World, After All | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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