Word: fatalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...clocks 120 beats per minute sound like an experience no red-blooded teenager would want to miss. After describing in detail the erotic effects of massive doses of L-dopa, MDA and deprenyl, the entry on aphrodisiacs adds as an afterthought that in some combinations these drugs can be fatal. Essays praising the beneficial effects of psychedelics and smart drugs on the "information processing" power of the brain sit alongside RANTS that declare, among other things, that "safe sex is boring sex" and that "cheap thrills...
...tumors? The safety of the ultimate yuppie accessory was called into question by the news that two prominent executives had been stricken by brain cancer (though the connection to phone use is unclear) and by a well-publicized lawsuit in which a Florida man charged that his wife's fatal brain tumor was caused by her cellular phone...
...born of irreverence, a genteel old dilemma. Until the pill, a threat of pregnancy ; loomed over any nice young man who considered having sex with someone he loved. Now especially for gay men, the threat is death. "Sex wasn't meant to be 'safe,' " Jeffrey says. "Or negotiated. Or fatal." But there's no sense moping, as a gay priest helpfully points out: "Terminal gloom -- who does that help? Even Brecht wrote musicals...
Since the concentrations of oil off the Shetlands are now low, seabirds are less likely to take on a fatal coat of crude than their counterparts in other spills. That is small comfort for the more than 700 birds that died in the early stages of the spill, or to the thousands more that may become sick from ingesting oil while preening or feeding on contaminated food. But the spill seems to have affected fewer birds than expected...
Researcher Charles Ewing compared a group of 100 battered women who had killed their partners with 100 battered women who hadn't taken that fatal step. Women who resorted to violence were usually those who were most isolated, socially and economically; they had been the most badly beaten, their children had been abused, and their husbands were drug or alcohol abusers. That is, the common bond was circumstantial, not psychological. "They're not pathological," says social psychologist Blackman. "They don't have personality disorders. They're just beat up worse...