Word: triggered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hand if needed. There will also be a designated "safe room" for those overcome by emotion. Jackson Katz, a California-based authority on male violence, is being brought in to lecture coaches and activities directors about tolerance and leadership and the excesses of the jock culture that allegedly helped trigger the rampage of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. School officials are concerned about the need to build a better climate of tolerance among all students...
...lonesome little boy, hyperactive and hyperimaginative. A big, scary monster who doesn't know his own strength--especially the strength of his sweet soul. An uncomprehending world that would rather exercise its many itchy trigger fingers than try to understand that which is strange...
...them out of the area, and force them to land if they don?t comply," says Rahman. "They?re only supposed to shoot down a plane once all those steps have been taken. Being a very professional air force, this is unlikely to have been the action of a trigger-happy pilot ? orders would have likely come from above, and that raises questions about what lay behind this incident." But right now, the tense atmosphere between the two countries may preclude an early answer...
...barbaric era and that mercifully soon, one of these monstrous episodes will be the last. High time. My guess, in fact, is that the hour has come and gone--that the great majority of Americans are saying they favor gun control when they really mean gun banishment. Trigger locks, waiting periods, purchase limitations, which may seem important corrections at the moment, will soon be seen as mere tinkering with a machine that is as good as obsolete. Marshall McLuhan said that by the time one notices a cultural phenomenon, it has already happened. I think the country has long been...
...serve two-year-olds a new food frequently--as often as 15 times over several months. As Roberts and Heyman explain, there's an evolutionary reason for toddlers to be picky eaters: it cut down a tiny hunter-gatherer's chances of food poisoning. Most important, don't trigger their natural rebellious streak by letting on that you think the food is good for them...