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What is going on? According to psychologist Sherry Turkle, author of The Second Self, the key lies in the rates of development of young boys and girls, which to their mutual pain and embarrassment are usually out of synch. Girls in their pre-teen years tend to mature faster than boys -- socially and sexually. Normal day-to-day interactions with these girls can be stressful and troubling for the boys, who tend to withdraw to a safe place -- sports, scouting, computer gaming -- where they can hang out until they are ready to hold their own with the girls, a process...
...time when the President is trying to restore his centrist reputation. Her assault on mandatory-sentencing laws horrified White House aides, who may agree that the laws don't work very well but are more concerned about what message they send. "There is some question about how ideologically in synch she is with the Clinton Administration," says one % official, though others privately note that staying in synch with so elastic a President means not believing in much...
Lamour's English is heavily accented, and others in the cast can barely function in English. That doesn't matter: even in the French version, the actors do not speak. They just pantomime and lip-synch to a portentous voice- over narration that calls to mind Alexander Scourby somberly narrating some war documentary. This technique enabled the show to be imported intact, and will permit performances in Spanish in Mexico City and seven U.S. cities with large Hispanic populations...
...dolphins break away from their trainers and submerge in the 6-ft.-deep water, where they can be seen circling until they begin to swim in tandem. Once they are in synch, the animals leap into the air and simultaneously spit out jets of water before plunging back into the pool. The trainers flash huge smiles at their flippered pupils and applaud wildly. The animals also seem delighted and squeak with pleasure...
Still, he picked up eight points and seven assists while controlling a Crimson team which seemed surprisingly in-synch for the first game of the season...