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...other cities the Pope would not visit came to Warsaw to see him. Jammed ten deep along the route of John Paul's motorcade, they raised homemade signs naming the cities from which they had come. Like the heroine of a Delacroix painting, one robust woman boldly thrust a banner reading GDANSK WELCOMES YOU toward a column of police as the procession filed past. The crowd roared its approval...
...impressive clinical cures have led some sexologists to view their once hallowed work with increasing skepticism. "The foundations of sex therapy, as designed by Masters and Johnson, are shaken," says Forum Editor Philip Nobile. "The field can no longer look with certainty at the bible. The whole thrust of human sexual inadequacy is in question...
Elliott fell in love with politics along with the rest of his town when popular local physician Otis "Doc" Bowen ran for governor in 1972. Bowen swept into office with the Nixon landslide that year, and sixth grader Elliott was captivated by the furor: "The whole community was just thrust into a political frenzy for months. It was exceedingly exciting, not just politically, but in a very personal way... We attended umpteen political rallies and speeches, with the TV cameras and lights and everything... Somewhere in the campaign, I became involved in the whole process, became an avid Republican...
...games were pervaded by violent themes. Yet these games, typically complex, with many things happening simultaneously, foster inductive reasoning, argued Patricia Greenfield, a professor of psychology at U.C.L.A. She maintained that a child who can manipulate an array of buttons to gauge the pull of gravity and the thrust of a spaceship, all the while evading invaders and firing off missiles, is using complex cognitive skills. This is what she called "parallel processing," the ability to evaluate many variables simultaneously. "Video games are like life," she said. "You must learn by observation, make judgments and rapid decisions...
Disregard of Privacy. Jones does not find much concern about the privacy of public figures. Readers do resent disregard for the "feelings of individuals like themselves who for no fault of their own are thrust into the news. They resent photos that show grief-stricken families or that hold someone up to ridicule...