Word: popped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...depths of the River, vending machines don't always fulfill the need for quick mid-morning snacks. Only problem is that this time-honored joint opens at different times every day, making it difficult to judge whether you should settle for another pop-tart or trek for a big bag of pretzels...
...stops away and across the river. "How is school?"..."How are your classes?"..."How are your friends?" Normal questions, the some old routine. Then, "There's something I need to tell you." Her hands stretched out across the table as I fiddled with soggy Sweet and Low wrappers. "Pop's score went up. They had to do a bone scan to see if the cancer had spread...
...mother's lips tautening, she told me that it was back. Reality had struck again, abruptly invading my college utopia. And Pop couldn't even bring himself to tell me in person--he had thought I was so happy at Harvard. "And we've known this for a few months," she was continuing. "We just wanted you to start school happy." I felt disgusting. I was the selfish daughter who hadn't even contemplated a return to this sickness--I was just reveling in the petty glories of being a careless freshman girl. I was worried about boys and chem...
...population is almost permanently armed from its teenage years, gun crime is almost negligible. A second common explanation for alienated teenagers' venting their anger in shooting sprees is the glamorization of violence in American popular culture. "Hollywood, TV and and videogames have spearheaded a cult of violence in pop culture that is typically American," says Sancton, "although it's rapidly spreading around the world." But while violence in pop culture may also contribute to the school shooting phenomenon, it's an insufficient explanation. "Japanese kids are raised on a diet of enormous violence in everything from TV cartoons to video...
...scientific advancements. The scientists and parents are not the only ones in on this perverted millennium action--there is money to be made by entrepreneurs as well. In just two months, a San Francisco company named Baby Center has sold almost 1,000 "Millennium Conception Kits." At $49.99 a pop, couples receive ovulation detection tests, pregnancy tests and massage oils...