Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...daughter-in-laws and would-be chefs everywhere, Thanksgiving can be the most stressful time of year. What with planning a holiday menu around Cousin Aldo's fatal allergy to starch and the ever-present danger of getting your hand stuck in the turkey, the coming weeks present a minefield of social embarrassment and culinary disaster. Hopefully, FM's guide to stuffing a turkey will save both life and limb...
...adult motivations to children, the laws are popular in many states. Opponents of the measures, ranging from Amnesty International to Abraham's defense lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, claim they violate the most basic rights. For instance, says Fieger, an adult with the mental age of an 11-year-old could present a "diminished capacity" defense, so what's the logic in assigning adult capabilities to an 11-year-old? (Especially one who is, according to defense psychologists, operating on the level of a six-year-old?) In Abraham's case - which Fieger says he will appeal - prosecutors indicate they...
While there is a lot of enthusiasm for a permanent international criminal court, Scheffer focused heavily on the need to regulate criminal activity in the present, in addition to working to create such a court...
...cultural obsessions that ignore me once again. In American culture, there is potential and nostalgia; we are fascinated by prodigies first and has-beens second. Stuck in the middle are millions like me, living in those awkward years between promising potential and ironic demise. And the parameters of the present keep pushing in. To the tune of discarded disco anthems, our eyes pan slowly from one Gap-clad teen to another, and for 30 seconds we cannot bring ourselves to blink. The teens stare back at us brimming with serene self-assurance, mocking anyone who ever made the mistake...
Since the tragedy at Littleton, people have been searching for indicators that identify "troubled teens," such as black clothes, "hard" music, dyed hair and body piercing [SPECIAL REPORT, Oct. 25]. When will people realize that subscribing to such stereotypes will only exacerbate the problems already present in our high schools? I have dyed my hair many times since I began my freshman year. I have a nose ring, and I enjoy wearing black clothes. I also have a 3.88 G.P.A. We should be focusing our diagnostic attentions on the problematic sources that lurk at levels far below the superficiality...