Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...media, the ultimate in crazed nannies. Armed with video-game joysticks and TV remotes--a funny word, with its false promise that it keeps you at a distance from whatever excitements it bounces you through--kids are whiplashed from one bit of blood sport to another, from South Park and Jerry Springer to Mortal Kombat on Nintendo. Ordinary kids may be a bit desensitized to violence. More-susceptible kids are pushed toward a dangerous mental precipice...
...couple of years later, he went to see Jurassic Park. As he viewed its distinctly birdlike velociraptors, it suddenly dawned on Todesco that he'd better get a second opinion. Sure enough, when he showed his little critter to experts at a paleontology museum, it turned out that he had not only the first dinosaur ever found in Pietraroia but the first found anywhere in Italy...
...provides a further buffer. Information technology has also allowed the industry to search for oil and make a profit at $15 per bbl., about half the threshold of just a decade ago. For example, the industry has adapted the computer-visualization techniques Hollywood used in movies like Jurassic Park for 3-D seismic visualization of potential reserves deep underground...
...played Lord of the Flies in the remoter woods of Rock Creek Park in Washington. We collected stones in bushel baskets and hid them among the dogwood blossoms. And then, nasty little sociopaths, 10 or 12 years old, we lay in ambush and at the signal hurled rocks full force at our enemies, who were led by the boy with yellow teeth...
...little Arkansas shooters were not entirely different from the dysfunctional brat in the park in Washington (me) who nearly killed the boy with yellow teeth. But some things were different in Jonesboro...