Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...filled office last week in the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine, a seven-story alternative-medicine facility in midtown Manhattan, he was angry about the spanking he had received 20 min. earlier from the American Dietetic Association. "People in power have a tough time admitting they were wrong," he says. "The same problem exists with the American Heart Association." He is also disgusted by most other diets, which he considers either poor copies of his own or plain bad science. He has an enemies list that would impress Richard Nixon...
...nothing more. I never developed an attachment to the characters; they remained two-dimensional drawings that moved in two-dimensional worlds. So I was totally prepared to pidgeon-hole anime when I popped in a tape of "Fushigi Yuugi" (Mysterious Play), a popular series in Japan. Boy, was I wrong...
...criticizing is easy: admitting you've been wrong, as Falwell did, takes guts. Mild and incomplete as his words were, they took real courage--many evangelicals, even more inflexible, howled that Falwell was letting them down. More importantly, those words will have real force. For the religious right, Falwell is an elder statesman: he is a famous Christian radio personality, the chancellor of Liberty University and one of the most powerful ministers in the country. As one gay-rights advocate told the Lynchburg News and Advance, "If Jerry Falwell says it, parents will think it's the right thing...
...some of you might be in the dark about the best ways to become aroused--and there is nothing wrong with that. This is one activity that you will want to set aside time to practice. For those without a special place to call their own, the shower isn't just for shaving and scrubbing. The junior from Dunster finds that masturbating in the shower is a great way to start the day. "I feel so clean and refreshed after I'm done," she says. The In-the-Shower technique is quite advanced, but it can be done. Sexperts...
...Stevens recalls, took forever. It was a Sunday, so banks were closed, and Stevens had to call an automated 1-800 number. "I would listen to all the menu choices, and none of them sounded like the right one, so I'd just pick one, and it would be wrong and I'd have to call again." Stevens ended up calling the company five times...