Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard-specific sites of her antics. But even the interest that inheres in a peer's extravagances is undercut by the fact that Wurtzel is neither a good writer nor an appealing individual. She comes off as an irritating, solipsistic brat. Wurtzel is interested not in depression as a phenomenon, but in her own depression, so her narrative will contain little interest even for depressed Harvard students, who would seem to be the perfect audience. Wurtzel views everything through the prism of her personal hell, so everything ends up being about her, including a lot of things that shouldn...
Students can expect to see the most salient manifestation of the rainy season's onslaught, a mass epidemic of gloom-induced depression, arriving soon. This phenomenon is the result of individuals who spent their summer basking on the beach suddenly finding their primary source of light reduced to a $2.95 halogen bulb...
...Profits are not a new phenomenon in American public schools," Schmidt said. Schmidt vehemently defended the project, stressing that market pressures such as accountability and responsiveness benefit an educational company and its clients...
When scientists look for hormone disruption in the general population, the evidence is murkier still. Birthrates go up and down for many reasons that have nothing to do with pollution. While there are anecdotal reports that the number of infertile couples is on the rise, the phenomenon could be a result of their waiting too long to try for children. The incidence of testicular cancer is higher than it was two decades ago, but that could be because of better reporting. Even the strongest piece of evidence, a Danish study that seems to document a drop in sperm counts over...
While there is nothing illegal or insidious about these adoptions, some experts regard the phenomenon with a mix of incredulity and alarm. "It's bizarre," says Joe Kroll, executive director of the North American Council on Adoptable Children in St. Paul, Minnesota. "We have families of all races who want to adopt children. Why are we going to other countries?" There are two main reasons: some lawyers and agencies find it easier and less time consuming to place black and biracial babies overseas, and some birth parents actually want their infants placed abroad...