Word: shea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those who sat out the sexual revolution, they may be too embarrassed or intimidated to talk to teens -- or afraid of giving the wrong information. Phyllis Shea, director of teen programs for the Worcester, Massachusetts, affiliate of Girls Inc. (formerly Girls Clubs of America), recently ran a sex- education workshop for 12 girls and their mothers. In many cases, she says, mothers lag far behind their daughters in knowledge. Five of the mothers had never seen a condom. A mother who had been completely unwilling to discuss sex with her daughter told the group that she had been molested...
Similarly, Shea says the outcome of the abortive 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union was a foregone conclusion--because the star chart of the Communist regime showed hardliners were not destined to return...
Skeptics say such conclusions are hocus-pocus, claiming and that it's easy to boast predictive success after the fact. But Shea and others stand behind such astrological predictions and say the stars' arrangement during a person's birth has a lifelong impact on the person...
...Shea, who has a degree in the history and science of astrology from the University of Massachusetts, teaches classes in astrology at the Seven Stars bookshop in Harvard Square and predicts clients' futures from their star charts...
...Shea links the influence of the star chart to beliefs in karmic reincarnation...