Word: reared
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the sparks flew, new ways of making love enabled sex to become a romantic encounter, not just a reproductive act. Although mounting mates from the rear was, and still is, the method favored among most animals, humans began to enjoy face-to-face couplings; both looks and personal attraction became a much greater part of the equation...
...Romance served the evolutionary purpose of pulling males and females into long-term partnership, which was essential to child rearing. On open grasslands, one parent would have a hard -- and dangerous -- time handling a child while foraging for food. "If a woman was carrying the equivalent of a 20-lb. bowling ball in one arm and a pile of sticks in the other, it was ecologically critical to pair up with a mate to rear the young," explains anthropologist Helen Fisher, author of Anatomy of Love...
...team, of course, doesn't see it that way. With constant admonitions from Captain Ted Drury and Coaches Ronn Tomassoni and Jerry Pawloski, the young Crimson has been duly warned to keep its killer edge, lest the best of complacency (the worry of all athletes) rear its ugly head...
...chaser. For Ice Cube, protecting and asserting his manhood is an important political act. His ancestors came over in the bottom of the boat, the generation before him rode in the back of the bus, and he sure isn't going to go out handcuffed in the rear of a police car. The first song, When Will They Shoot?, is a blast of fear and loathing to a thumping metallic beat. "Will they do me like Malcolm?" Ice Cube asks. "Uncle Sam is Hitler without an oven . . . The KKK has got three-piece suits...
...Contemplating the small courtyard that still contains fragments of the boyhood home of Marco Polo, one wonders: Did memories of almost this same scene sustain the 13th century adventurer in his wanderings? Or was happiness for him always the sight of Venice in the rear-view mirror...