Word: reasonings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that is all the more reason to talk to them now as adults, as friends, in some ways even as peers. We've grown out of our adolescence, and our parents have weathered it. That's why college is a good time to normalize relations, to realize that our parents really weren't so bad after all, and to try to catch up on the years we wasted fighting with one another...
...Streets of Philadelphia, Springsteen all but completed a kind of hip-hop album. "I got together a lot of samples and loops and started to put this album together," he says. "It was fun; I enjoyed doing it, but I needed two or three more songs, and for some reason, I never got around to writing them. So I put it away. Eventually, I'm going to find a way to get this music out to people...
Although love is his main subject on Human Being, it is not his only one. The gentle Colours imagines a world without race and asks the question, Would people still be able to find a way and a reason to discriminate? The song was inspired by a trip Seal took to Monte Carlo two years ago. The city was filled with wealthy whites, and the only other person of color he saw was a black street cleaner. The opening track, Human Beings, also deals with a weighty theme: partly inspired by the murders of rappers Tupac Shakur and the Notorious...
College-age kids have a new reason to lay off booze: research shows that in 21-to-24-year-olds, just two glasses of alcohol impairs the ability to learn significantly more than in adults just a few years older. Another new report suggests what causes some kids to start drinking: television. Perhaps because of the way drinking is portrayed on TV, kids who are glued to the tube--especially to music videos--are substantially more likely to become teenage drinkers...
...ours. Whatever isn't seized will end up in their hands." There's little the Israelis can realistically do to stop Arafat from declaring a state, but they'll do their best to restrict him to a Rorschach splatter hardly visible on a world map. Which is a good reason not to bet that Israeli troops will be striking camp any time soon...