Word: rage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were not--the Rutgers team says there is "no reduction in the birthrate of welfare mothers attributable" to the family cap. The dissonance between O'Neill and Rutgers is largely explained by three factors: a general decline in births; a slight decrease in illegitimacy, perhaps imputable to the growing rage against bearing children out of wedlock; and, above all, a reporting delay predicted by independent researchers when O'Neill announced her conclusions late last year. "It seems that many women mistakenly thought they'd be cut off from welfare altogether if they had another kid," says Michael Laracy, who studied...
...course, there are other drugs for heart disease and several promising new ones in the pipeline for osteoporosis. Many of the "alternative" practitioners around the country are suggesting that women seek estrogen from dietary sources. In Los Angeles and Boston, Mexican yams have become all the rage among women of a certain age. Yams contain a weak form of estrogen. San Francisco nutritionist Linda Ojeda, author of Menopause Without Medicine, advocates soybeans, which contain a natural progesterone as well as estrogen. The low rate of menopausal complaints among Japanese women may be due in part to their consumption of tofu...
...most disturbing thing about Thomas is not his conclusions, but his twisted reasoning and bilious rage. In his written opinions, he begins with premises that no self-respecting black would disagree with, then veers off into a neverland of color-blind philosophizing in which all race-based policies, from Jim Crow laws designed to oppress minorities to affirmative-action measures seeking to assist them, are conflated into one morally and legally pernicious whole. He delights in gratuitously tongue-lashing the majority of blacks who disagree with him on almost every civil rights issue. He heaps scorn on federal judges...
...chain record store, the CD bins are stuffed with amiable releases by Hootie and the Blowfish and Boyz II Men. But they also hold the gangsta rap of Bloods and Crips and Tupac Shakur. Nearby, at the Time Out video arcade, Jordan Trimas, 16, is playing Primal Rage, a game in which dinosaurs tear one another to pieces. "Sure, the violence influences kids,'' he shrugs. "But nobody can do anything about...
...Rage-to-riches stories are not as common as we would like to believe. No matter how many "Mighty Duck" movies Disney puts out or how many times one watches "The Natural," it is quite rare for a cellar-dweller to rocket to the top of the standings...