Word: parented
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cause of the disease is a gene mutation that occurred centuries ago in Africa. The estimated 2,000,000 Americans who carry one defective gene usually show no symptoms of the disease. The one child in 500 who inherits a sickle-cell gene from each parent has barely an even chance of seeing his 20th birthday and, if he does survive into middle age, is likely to be crippled...
...from his parents that many a skyjacker wants to flee. Often as a child he alternately detested both his father, who may have been alcoholic and violent, and his mother, in many cases a religious fanatic. Characteristically, he sought sanctuary first with one and then with another, and since they disliked each other, each parent welcomed his desertion of the other. To Hubbard, the act of skyjacking symbolizes and repeats this childhood flight; skyjackers "seek to go to nations that are unfriendly to their homeland, in the expectation that they will not be returned...
...report said. But neither "calm" nor "tranquillity" were the words for what went on. According to the new findings, campus disruptions did not disappear but declined only to just below the level of the 1968-69 academic year, when Harvard and Cornell erupted into national headlines and many a parent wondered what the world was coming to. The chief difference, ACE argues, is that back then 40% of the troubled institutions got national coverage; last year only...
Clearly, leaving college can turn into a purposeless drift through trivial jobs and futile distractions. The specter of a dropout's destroying himself on heroin haunts many a parent (though the prevalence of drugs on campus makes life in academe less reassuring than it used...
Perhaps it was inevitable. Mum and Dad separated when she was ten; the child was given her choice of parent to live with. At that age, girls are bonkers about their fathers; she and Conner enjoyed what she recalls as "a parody of marriage." Together they went to concerts, studied languages, played cello and piano duets. At 15, Penelope passed Oxford's matriculation exams, but was too young to be admitted. She tried a year at Bennington. There the peculiar Americans informed her that she possessed an Einsteinian...