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Somebody else says, "How about if we have a kid seeing something really scary out a second-story window, but his parents don't believe him, and then the scary thing does its dirty work?" Swell: a dinosaur in The Lost World, a runaway cruise ship in Speed...
What that translates to on the page is a stridently virile voice that seems to be saying to readers, "Just because you're into moisturizers or worried about the swell of your pecs doesn't mean you're not inviolately heterosexual." Take this intro to a GQ piece on wedding gifts: "The nuptials must be attended. He's your bud, man. And it's not like you don't know her. Besides, you're fairly certain she hasn't mentioned that incident in the bathroom at Roberto's wedding." This is a prevalent mode of writing that might be called...
...make up a majority of the U.S. population. Blacks will have been overtaken as the largest minority group by Hispanics. Asians and Pacific Islanders will more than double their number of 9.3 million in 1995 to 19.6 million by 2020. An explosion of interracial, interethnic and interreligious marriages will swell the ranks of children whose mere existence makes a mockery of age-old racial categories and attitudes. Since 1970, the number of multiracial children has quadrupled to more than 2 million, according to the Bureau of the Census. The color line once drawn between blacks and whites--or more precisely...
...symptoms of Alzheimer's, they will have accomplished a great deal. About 4 million Americans suffer from the degenerative brain disorder, and caring for them costs some $100 billion a year. Before the middle of the next century, the aging of the baby-boom generation is expected to swell the number of Alzheimer's sufferers nearly threefold. Measures that delay the onset of symptoms in these patients by just five years could cut the associated health-care costs as much...
...Does the swell of growth spreading around the world mean that the American model is contagious? TIME's experts wouldn't go that far. Although generally optimistic about the short term, most of the panel members also cautioned that the current good news could still contain the seeds of its own abrupt...