Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kind of seedy, plain ugly food, though reputedly nourishing, plastic tabletop and wobbly steel-frame chair kind of a place with a long cafeteria serving counter and punched orange meal tickets," Rogers says...
Furthermore, the very definition of being a child--what makes him survive and grow--is being able to move up and down emotionally, having a basic elasticity. Says Dr. Peter Jensen, child and adolescent psychiatrist at the National Institute of Mental Health: "A child is more fluid and plastic than an adult. A child may look depressed one day because his dog died but seem O.K. three days later...
...line skating is one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S., with some 32 million devotees. And along with its growing popularity has come an array of new designs and high-tech materials, from carbon-injected plastic to glass-reinforced nylon. But I didn't really care about all that techie mumbo-jumbo. I just wanted a skate that felt fast, light and, above all, comfortable...
...raised eyebrows), I rolled out onto the street with my friend Maryanne and a pair of Rollerblade's new Nature skates. A fancy version of the metal strap-ons I wore as a kid, the $190 Natures are in fact hiking boots that clip onto a plastic frame with wheels. The great thing about these skates is that when we came to a slope that seemed too steep, we just popped off the frame and walked down, dignity intact. The two-piece construction felt surprisingly stable; the boots, however, just didn't fit right. They were available only in whole...
...JUST BARBIE A study published in last week's International Journal of Eating Disorders found that popular male action figures like G.I. Joe have been popping the plastic steroids a little too zealously. The G.I. Joe of the 1960s had biceps equivalent to those of an average man, about 12 in. But the 1997 iteration, G.I. Joe Extreme, had biceps measuring 26 in. Poor Mark McGwire. His are a piddling...