Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worst self-inflicted wound was Clinton's marijuana confession. The damage flowed less from the admission than from the way Clinton phrased it. In the past, when asked if he had ever used drugs, Clinton replied that he had never broken any state or federal laws. Only when a reporter crafted a surgically worded question asking if he had ever broken the laws of another country did Clinton finally acknowledge trying pot "a time or two" while a graduate student in England more than 20 years ago. He added that he hadn't enjoyed it and "didn't inhale...
...last album, Tunnel of Love, was released 4 1/2 years ago. The final record made with the E Street Band, it was like an unstanched wound. The songs were usually interpreted as a reflection of his considerable personal turmoil. Human Touch and Lucky Town, as the titles suggest, are about putting smashed pieces together, about measuring loss and transcending it. Whatever he staked on these records, he's got it back on one Roll of the Dice...
Youngsters ages 10 to 15 are also vulnerable. "The original idea of junior high school was to ease the transition from childhood to adulthood," notes Hamburg. "Unfortunately, junior high has become a replica of high school. There are no distinctive social relationships or curriculum. It's actually wound up forcing children to make the transition to adulthood even earlier." Hamburg favors abolishing junior highs, or at the least radically reforming them, by creating smaller, more intimate schools within larger institutions and setting up a curriculum in the sciences and health that builds on students' natural preoccupation with their changing bodies...
...right lung, a rosy mass marred by a couple of suspicious lumps. "Fire away," Sugarbaker directs the assisting surgeon. On the screen a tiny pincer appears. Grabbing hold of the lung just above the lesion, the pincer makes a clean slice through the quivering tissue, simultaneously sealing the wound by laying down a triple row of surgical staples. A few more snips and the task is complete. Sugarbaker, chief of thoracic surgery at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital, draws a 10-cm-long sliver of lung through a finger-size hole in the patient's side and sends...
...FRANK '95 NATASHA H. LELAND '95 JOE MATHEWS '95 LAN N. NGUYEN '93 PHILIP P. PAN '93 JOSHUA W. SHENK '93 IRA E. STOLL '94 FEATURES EDITOR: MAGGIE S. TRUCKER '93 SPORTS EDITOR: JAY K.VARMA '93 EDITORIAL EDITOR: BETH L. PINSKER '93 PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORS: SUSANNAH ROSS '93 LILY J. WOUND '95 BUSINESS EDITOR: NELSON E. FAMADAS...