Word: complexity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revelation. James has never considered food in any terms more complicated than hungry, full, yum, yuck. I--and, I would venture to say, most of my female friends--have had as confused and complex a relationship with food as with many a human being...
Penetrating the Byzantine world of high school requires a certain degree of tradecraft. Photographers Bob Sacha and Andre Lambertson, both veterans of the Duke campaign, showed their expertise at maneuvering in a complex social group. Religion writer David Van Biema, as he had at Duke, concentrated on the sensitive issues of death and faith. Photographers Joe McNally, Lauren Greenfield and Steve Liss managed to place themselves in the midst of teenage action most outsiders never...
Better communication will be even more important as treatments become more complex. Currently there's no screening test for finding lung cancer early. (Chest X rays almost always catch it too late.) But Dr. Claudia Henschke of the Weill Medical College at Cornell University in New York City and her colleagues believe they have found a way to identify very small tumors with low-dose CAT scans. It's a new approach that all smokers and ex-smokers, regardless of race, should keep...
...biography, the media have once again jumped at the chance to rekindle their Reagan bashing. Reagan was not a simpleton; he just had a simple message. He wanted to free Americans from excessive government, and he wanted to win the cold war. Reagan's message may not have been complex enough for the intellectuals, but at least he didn't put his finger to the wind and take a poll before making decisions. I will always respect him for being a man of convictions. BILL CLINGER Harpster, Ohio...
...time I checked, is controlled by white men. But when I called Faludi, she warned against such finger pointing. "We're all complicit in a culture that disfigures people. Most of us participate as consumers," she said. "The blame game is too easy. People should deal with a more complex dynamic than 'Who are we going to put on a wanted poster?'" Wanted posters sound good and manly...