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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...giving Congress more say in areas that range from committing troops to combat to forcing the President into spending the money it votes. Says Thompson: "It really has to do with the balance of power, and checks and balances. When you have a White House under siege, those things tend to get out of kilter...
When people are stoned on marijuana, they tend to focus on one thing at a time: the food, the music, the dog. Conversation deteriorates. More important, says Steve Sussman, a drug-abuse researcher and associate professor at U.S.C., "you don't learn how to cope with real life. You don't learn how to experience life in real terms, to feel bad normally. Let's say you smoked marijuana heavily from age 16 to 26, then stopped. The way you process life events emotionally after that may be more like a 16-year-old." Could it be that the famous...
...believe we have to instill a great deal of joy and confidence in our children before they get to be teenagers in order to protect them through those hard years. Parents tend to blame themselves for things that are culture-wide. The difference between moderate experimentation and catastrophic drug taking is vast. We should not get desperately alarmed about mild social experimentation. But we should get desperately alarmed about the child who is compelled to use drugs. The flat rules like "Just say no" are easy to pronounce but hard to enforce. It's so easy to make that kind...
...himself on English Bay aboard Ray Loewen's yacht, the company's secret weapon in the subtle art of funeral-home acquisition. Traditionally, the funeral industry has been dominated by family-run operations. Even now consolidators own only about 10% of America's 23,000 funeral homes, although these tend to be prime properties in key markets and account for an estimated 20% of the country's funerals. Wooing the owners often involves a good deal of soft salesmanship--chats over coffee and impromptu visits to talk about "succession planning," the industry's euphemism for transferring ownership. Loewen then flies...
...Leaf Men By William Joyce (HarperCollins; $15.95) Sentimental and old-timey, The Leaf Men tells the teary tale of a sick old lady; her garden, which withers because she can't tend it; and a lost toy, a little metal man, that she misplaced years ago. This odd story is entomologically incorrect, no doubt, because it also deals with good bugs, bad bugs and a villainous spider queen who must be killed by the heroes--mysterious green leaf men. What make Joyce's book exceptional are his vivid paintings of a scary, moonlit tree climb to summon the leaf...