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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hospital may be the most fascinating place we never want to visit. We know there are triumphs here: fingers reattached, lungs replaced and babies born, small enough to bathe in a big teacup, who would have had no chance 10 years ago but who now go home and grow up. Maybe they will become doctors too. But it is also a war zone, and if you are not fighting the enemy or loading the weapons or plotting the next campaign, you can hardly understand what a brave, brutal, mysterious place this really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Week In The Life Of... ...A Hospital | 10/12/1998 | See Source »

...they seem to ignore right and wrong), most also say those concepts aren't well developed for kids under 10. Kyle Pruett, a professor of clinical psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, illustrates this point with a test: "Tell a seven- or eight-year-old, 'Johnny broke one teacup throwing it at his sister. Sara broke eight teacups helping Dad load the dishwasher. Which kid did the worse thing?' The average seven-year-old will pick Sara because she broke more. By 11, they have it sorted out that intentionality is part of the moral system. Not when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For They Know Not What They Do? | 8/24/1998 | See Source »

...TOPEKA, KANS. No alcohol in a teacup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banned in the U.S.A. | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

...Could Rowley's whimsical teacup hats actually catch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 13, 1998 | 4/13/1998 | See Source »

...surface, that Milton Berle's wife arrived in Washington from Hollywood and asked what in the world was going on in the White House. "If all of the women who claim to have slept with Kennedy are telling the truth, he would not have strength enough to lift a teacup, let alone deal with Khrushchev." Women or not, Kennedy dealt pretty well with Khrushchev, and that may be the larger reason why Camelot will not fade away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSY IN BED, BUT ALSO IN BERLIN | 11/17/1997 | See Source »

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