Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of these years, Collins continued to feel like a little girl alone, the only person with her problem in a Ken Kesey world of psych wards. Now the problem of "cutters" like Collins has come out into the open; some are calling it the "anorexia of the '90s." An estimated 2 million Americans purposely cut or burn themselves, break bones or otherwise mutilate themselves. That figure may even be low, say many experts, judging from the growing number of reports from hospitals, schools and therapists. Karen Conterio and Wendy Lader started S.A.F.E. (Self-Abuse Finally Ends) Alternatives, the nation...
...weaves her anecdotes together with science--for example, a Harvard study finding that severe trauma may alter both the chemistry and structure of the brain and other body systems meant to handle stress. And she chronicles the problems that researchers have, even today, in getting institutions to take the problem seriously. Two scientists at the National Institute of Mental Health, for example, were stymied when they attempted to undertake a groundbreaking study of the connection between childhood sexual abuse and adult disorders such as self-injury. "We don't do that kind of research," the researchers say they were told...
Such was Pollock's problem. The picture in which he broke free from it--and, it now seems, took American art into a larger freedom with him--was the 20-ft.-wide mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim. He painted it in one outpouring rush, in a day and a night. Mural isn't by any means an abstract painting. It retains the essence of subject matter shared by most "classical" murals, from Giotto to Matisse--the projection of human figures on a large plane surface. But the movement isn't suave. The figures are arabesques, coiling, jammed together, recognizable...
...previewing my first minute-long masterpiece, titled The Walker, took about four hours. You can save your movie on videotape or slim it down into a lower grade, streaming video format for the Web. (The premiere of The Walker can be seen on our website at timedigital.com. Only one problem: now I want a video camera...
...difficult to tell if this is just a sophisticated campaign to intimidate Saddam into backing down or if they're actually planning to attack," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The problem is that we don't seem to have an endgame -- cruise missiles are more effective as a means of intimidation than at delivering a result. Baghdad believes that short of landing troops there, nothing we do militarily is going to have an enormous impact on them." If the U.S. plans to proceed, President Clinton's scheduled departure Friday for a 10-day tour of Asia...