Word: showing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about her views. Madeleine's War? "Well, I don't think it's solely mine. But I feel that we did the right thing, and I am proud of the role I played in it." Now, after a week that advanced the possibility of peace, her challenge is to show that she is as good at getting out of a war as she is at getting into...
...saying it all loudly. In an increasingly Balkanized medical community, fractured by all manner of alternative therapies, Null, a Ph.D. in human nutrition and public-health science, is leading one of the biggest breakaway republics of all. Author of more than 50 books, host of a daily radio show and creator of two popular self-help videos, Null is preaching his good-health gospel to a growing band of believers following his path to long life and wellness...
...advice on beauty and aging. One daily protocol he suggests for hair care calls for consuming more than 6,500 mg of a dozen different preparations, plus 6 oz. of sea vegetables and six glasses of dark-green vegetable juice. Most people would probably prefer just to switch shampoos. "Show me a single clinical trial that suggests this represents a rational approach," says Jeffrey Blumberg, professor of nutrition at Tufts University...
Last week the PBS talk show To the Contrary broadcast results of a new study it had commissioned from a New York University economist: he claims that women now control a majority--51.3%--of U.S. household wealth. Other economists challenge the report's methodology, especially its apportioning of wealth evenly between husbands and wives. Yet even the critics believe women's influence over wealth is growing, if only because wives outlive their husbands by an average of seven years and usually inherit most of their assets...
...eyes fell first on the killers, and the questions we can neither avoid nor answer. The talk-show rituals of absolution--blame the culture, the parents, the guns, the video games--left too much unresolved for those inclined to declare that the boys were simply, deeply wicked. But for those with an eye toward larger battles, the killers were not themselves evil; they were instruments of it, of the dark force we met in Narnia and try not to think about once we grow up, until the day we have no choice. Hence the 15 crosses planted...