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...time he enters first grade and 19,000 hours by the end of high school -- more time than he will spend in class. This dismayingly passive experience crowds out other, more active endeavors: playing outdoors, being with friends, reading. Marie Winn, author of the 1977 book The Plug-In Drug, gave a memorable, if rather alarmist, description of the trancelike state TV induces: "The child's facial expression is transformed. The jaw is relaxed and hangs open slightly; the tongue rests on the front teeth (if there are any). The eyes have a glazed, vacuous look...
...life. I hope they make some big breakthroughs soon. If you could only reconcile the mental with the physical, then throw in the emotional! These growth hormones, where can I get a bunch of them? Is there some way that, with electricity, you could stimulate your own growth hormones? Plug yourself in for five minutes, there'd be a little jolt, but you'd get used to it. It wouldn't be bad at all; in fact, you'd get to enjoy it, probably. Then away you'd go, and youth wouldn't be wasted on the young anymore...
...Turkey and Syria, two nations that are part of the alliance against Saddam Hussein. Turkey, which has already cut off key Iraqi oil pipelines, is in the better position to severely disrupt the flow. With some effort, the Ataturk dam on the Euphrates River could be used as a plug on the crucial water supply, and there are already enough antiaircraft missiles in place to defend it from Iraqi bombers. Another, more wasteful proposal is simply to divert feeder rivers into desert areas. U.S. officials are aware that the Iraqi regime worries about a cutoff: in the early days...
...Senate action left open the possibility that Defense Secretary Dick Cheney could save the two B-2s in negotiations between the two chambers. And despite Cheney's urgings, re-election-minded House members reluctant to shut down production lines in their districts have refused to pull the plug on such high-priced weapons as the F-15 fighter, M-1 tank and V-22 transport plane. But the overall impact of last week's cuts was clear: some of the most cherished items on Cheney's wish list have been slam-dunked...
...idea then became in my mind, `we have areal hot political issue to plug into thelecture,'" Yourow said. "I thought, `let's do thismock confirmation to fuse political and legalissues in an interesting way to involve theaudience...