Word: answering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever had a nightmare that you're back in school taking the big exam? Bill Clinton is having one of those right now: he's trying to pass a test in which every possible answer seems wrong. But the President's bad dream is all too real. And it has a name: Saddam Hussein. When the Iraqi nemesis bared his fangs at Clinton and the U.N. last week--expelling American weapons inspectors from Iraq, threatening to shoot down U-2 surveillance planes and daring the world to do something about it--he precipitated the gravest international crisis of Clinton...
Physician Mary Ann Peberdy of the Medical College of Virginia conducted a survey of 93 doctors' offices to determine how many of them had a heart defibrillator on hand. The answer turned out to be not many. Of the 51 offices that responded, only six had bothered to purchase the $3,500 piece of equipment, and only three had a nurse on staff trained in cardiac life support. By contrast, Las Vegas casinos--rarely regarded as oases of good health--are increasingly making it a point to have defibrillators and medical teams on-site at all times...
...blame problems on racism does not mean a reduced sense of racial identity. Psychologist Beverly Tatum, author of the recently published Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?, says she often asks her psychology students to complete this sentence: "I am ______." White students tend to answer with personality traits: "I am friendly," "I am shy," etc. Students of color tend to fill in the blank with their ethnicity: "I am black" or "I am Puerto Rican." The foundation for racial identity, Tatum argues, is constructed in adolescence by peer pressure, societal influences and self-reflection...
Mitchell: That's a stupid answer...
...comes in third behind Barney and Arthur, a cartoon about an aardvark that was developed mainly for older children. Blue's Clues has a rigid structure: in each episode, a young man named Steve (played by Steven Burns, who could not be more likable) tries to figure out the answer to a question. Blue, his animated pet dog, provides clues by putting his paw print on three objects. For example, in one episode, Blue, wishing Steve to guess what he wanted to drink with his snack, put his print on a cup, a straw and a cow. The solution: Blue...