Word: peers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thing. Hung Pham, 31, a Vietnamese refugee who attended UCLA, now works as a software engineer. He and his wife have just bought a home near Los Angeles and are talking about having a family. But he worries about the life his children will face. "Too much peer pressure. There are too many material things to distract them," he says. Then he pauses. "If you live in this country, maybe that's the way it should be. If I raised my kids the way my parents raised me, they would be nerds...
Tehran, the capital, is unmistakably seedy these days, but it has suffered surprisingly little damage from the war. Women in black chadors still peer into shopwindows filled with Western-style wedding dresses and lingerie. As always, automobiles choke the city, creating a blanket of smog. Near the airport, concrete walls are covered with political cartoons, some depicting America as the "Great Satan" and others attacking Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. One drawing shows Saddam's face peering out of a pot surrounded by hand grenades, and another depicts the U.S. as a skeleton clutching bombs in its hands...
...retired Oxford don who has been crafting wry, sprightly, often fanciful mysteries for more than half a century. The "ex-bobby," as he coyly calls himself, reappears in an umpteenth adventure, Appleby and the Ospreys (Dodd Mead; 185 pages; $15.95), to investigate the murder of a dotty peer struck down in the library of his ancestral country pile. There is not much out of the ordinary in either the premise or the solution, but Innes' plot prestidigitation is as deft as ever, and his celebrated sense of humor is in full flood, whether sketching a social-climbing mother or recounting...
...fabulous Bourton sisters: Catherine, the "Mona Lisa of Wall Street," and Monty, the international rock star, who wake up one morning to find priceless pink pearls under their pillows. What do the gifts mean? Can they have anything to do with the sisters' late father James Bourton, "the Suicide Peer," discovered at his desk with a "red mess where his head should have been"? Brayfield intercuts 40 years of well- researched background -- from the rubber plantations of World War II Malaya, where James went in as a boy and came out a man, to the Sassoon haircuts of 1965 London...
...However, peer counselors and health officials add that most undergraduates, particularly heterosexuals, tend to feel that their youth makes them immune to the disease. They therefore ignore the recommended precautions, such as using condoms...