Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dream of redemptive creativity roughly analogous to hers: he wants to be a rapper. When they and another couple are thrown together on a weekend trip to Oakland, California, in a post-office van, edginess slowly gives way to an understanding that survives even a sudden lurch toward the tragic...
...more tragic, and ironic, reasons for the recent upswing in child prostitution is the mistaken belief that young sex partners are less likely to have AIDS. In fact, the opposite may be true. "Both boys and girls are more vulnerable to infection because they are prone to lesions and injuries in sexual intercourse," says Dr. Pers-Anders Mardh, director of the World Health Organization's Collaborating Center for Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Uppsala, Sweden. "Imagine intercourse occurring millions of times under these conditions." The AIDS epidemic alone is enough to justify a crackdown on child prostitution, says Mardh. "There...
...avoid running a gauntlet of protesters outside an abortion clinic. Still, it won't take all the anguish out of the procedure. "It's insulting to women to say that abortion now will be as easy as taking aspirins," says Baulieu. "It is always difficult, psychologically and physically, sometimes tragic...
...figured we'd miss the real Tommy's and we were right. Tommy, come back. It's not too late to right this tragic wrong. February...
...brunt of both repressive isms and where, he fears, freedom may be at risk if economic and political chaos provokes a return to authoritarian rule. "There are two reasons why I support open societies," he explains. "One is the possibility of actually having an impact, of turning a tragic situation around; and the other, because, simply, history has no end. People may see a black hole where Yugoslavia once was, but in the future those people will survive, and some form of organization will emerge. What we preserve or support now will have a chance later...