Word: weird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sounds a little weird, but it can't hurt, right? After all, no matter how scary the high-flying simulation gets, my feet will always be firmly planted on the ground. Before my virtual flight, psychologist Samantha Smith went over a few relaxation techniques: keep breathing, remember that the chance of dying in a plane crash is 1 in 10 million and use special tricks to distract myself from my mind's own in-flight horror movies. So far, so good. In fact, when I glanced over at the dorky plastic seat and headset I was about...
Ormus shows weird promise as a young man. For complicated reasons, he is able to go into trances and somehow hear popular songs two years, eight months and 28 days (or 1,001 nights) before anyone else in the world. Ormus has a problem receiving the lyrics ("The ganja, my friend, is growing in the tin; the ganja is growing in the tin"), but no one doubts that he possesses a peculiar gift, least of all Vina Apsara, who meets Ormus in a record store and realizes that the two of them will make beautiful music together. Rai explains...
...your typical teenage reading. But Maria Perez and Fabiola Tostado, both 15, and Nevada Dove, 18, pore over this stuff as closely as most kids read music 'zines. Some nights you can find them at Nevada's house, reading the latest report out loud, highlighting anything that sounds weird. Her brother calls them the Toxic Crusaders, and with good reason. As three young members of Concerned Citizens of South Central Los Angeles (CCSCLA), Maria, Fabiola and Nevada are activists in the cause of environmental health. They've handed out containers in which oil can be recycled and given warnings about...
...help you make an informed choice, here's the real Harvard, complete with mediocre teaching fellows, intermittent social life and weird naked rituals. But there's also amazing housing, absorbing extracurriculars and fascinating fellow students...
Many viewers observe the awkward silence. "Usually you don't know the other people," says Uttam K. Tambar '00. "So usually you just sit there, and that's weird--cause you're used to watching T.V. with your friends...