Word: writerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yankee closer told beat writer Jack Curry of the New York Times last week that he would quit baseball in four years to pursue a higher calling--becoming an evangelical minister...
...writer is a member of the Undergraduate Council...
...writer is the editor of the Perspective...
...attendant risks and responsibilities actually raises the age at which kids become sexually active. And, as many sex educators point out, kids know that sex is out there, and they're curious about it. "Many kids who attend abstinence-only schools think their schools' attitude is unrealistic," says TIME writer Jodie Morse. "They feel that condoms should be available to protect the kids who are going to have sex anyway." Given that abstinence curricula just got an infusion of $250 million in federal funding over the next five years, supporters are under considerable pressure to link chastity lessons...
...medicine as the treatment of choice, the NIMH says that there's a clear biological component that can be chemically modified. That's not to say that every time a kid acts up we should drug him. "This is not just handing out Ritalin or Adderol," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "The medication needs to be monitored, and other studies show that medications are effective only when combined with some form of psychotherapy." So a pill alone still won't make your kid into a straight-A student - but it can help...