Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Swallowing, sniffing, smoking and injecting are the prevalent ways of using drugs. One youngster has accidentally explored another method-packing her ear. The aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left...
...philosophy: "One adjusts to realities. I try to forge ahead, aware that life may never be full but determined never to accept less than I must." With a similar emphasis on facing facts, an article titled "How Different Is My Child?" counsels against overprotection-which can deprive a youngster of the experiences he needs to become emotionally independent-and against overexpectation, which can make a child feel that "he cannot do anything, no one likes him, and he will never be any good...
...normal legs had been forced into a spread position by the deformity, must still spend several weeks in traction to correct this condition. But the doctors believe that further corrective surgery will be unnecessary. According to Donovan, Enrique's incomplete twin would have grown in proportion to the youngster's normal growth. Instead, he says, "We will send him home normal in every way, with only two scars to show for what might have been...
...DESPERATELY): Well, you were interested in show business as a youngster. You did magic tricks in your basement and that sort of thing? How did you get started with that...
...enclosure were hundreds of protesters crying, "Welcome, brothers and sisters!" to one another. Said one prisoner, rubbing the tear gas from his eyes: "This isn't a jail! This is a goddam party!" So it seemed. Indeed, there was more petulance than anger. Moaned one youngster, as he was pulled into the compound: "I mean, I was going to be guilty, but they busted me before I even had a chance to do anything." Besides, it was difficult to get mad at guards who kept smiling and joking and in one instance, answered shouts of "Pig!" with...