Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every night, scores of Harvard students look up from their unmarked and neglected Ec 10 source-books into the deceptively silent darkness, wondering what the rest of the world is up to. Gazing into neighboring windows, we wonder what could be going on behind the closed curtains. The quiet world of Harvard's "watchers in the night" is a lot more widespread than one might guess...
...what does she see? "Well, I don't really watch when they're getting undressed or anything." C'mon, really? "Well, at least never when they're actually naked." Oh yeah? "Well, at least not on purpose," says Liz. "Actually, sometimes we'll look over and wonder, why the curtain is closed. What's going on in there...
...expanding at a rapid pace, such a prime political feeding ground? The main reason is that the Internet is vastly overrated by those who know nothing about it. The Internet seems futuristic--it comes with trendy catch-phrases such as "information superhighway" and "cyberspace." We listen in awe and wonder as CEOs explain to us, in layman's terms, the importance of "networking" and "global resources." With the Internet, they tell us, we can do everything conceivable with the stroke of a few keys. It will make our lives easier. How? Don't know. It just will...
...amuse a grownup can injure a child, whose brain undergoes a powerful development surge before age 14. "Parents don't understand that taking a four-year-old to True Lies--a fun movie for adults but excessively violent--is poison to their brain," says Michael Gurian, author of The Wonder of Boys...
Given all that, the real wonder may be that schoolboy massacres are still an aberration. But like crime generally, juvenile violence involving guns has actually been in decline since 1994. A downturn in the ultraviolent crack trade is one reason. Just two weeks ago, the National Center for Education Statistics, in a survey requested by President Clinton, found the incidence of serious crime in schools to be flat. In the past year, only 10% reported a rape, robbery or fight involving a weapon. But again, like crime generally, violent juvenile crime has stabilized at a rate that would have seemed...