Word: inner
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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SMITH tries, when dealing with theinnovations and reforms, to narrate and providecolor rather than to judge. Being Smith, he hasaccess to practically everyone except for the verytop of Soviet leadership, and he is an adeptinterviewer, gleaning inner motives and fears fromevery source...
...scouting is bound to such traditions, the movement faces the challenge of joining the fast-paced '90s without losing values that should endure. Quaint slogans like "Be prepared" and "Do a good turn daily" may in fact be useful in an age of Middle East crises and crack cocaine. Inner-city scout troops now meet in welfare hotels, in juvenile halls, even on ghetto street corners, where mobile homes serve as assembly halls. "We're not using the Norman Rockwell image anymore," says chief scout executive Ben Love, 60, who has initiated campaigns to combat five "unacceptables": hunger, illicit drugs...
...like this. Our infant-mortality rate is higher than Singapore's; our life expectancy is lower than Cubans'. As many as 50% of inner-city infants and toddlers go unimmunized. In the face of AIDS, our first major epidemic since polio, we are nearly helpless. Our city hospitals are overflowing with victims of tuberculosis, poverty, AIDS, old age and exposure. Our rural areas don't have this problem; they have fewer and fewer hospitals or, increasingly, less medical personnel of any kind...
...elastic band, has been joined by plaits, queues and thin, razor-cut hanks of eccentric design. Gary Margolis, 45, director of a counseling center at Vermont's Middlebury College, believes that hair has once again become a font of Zen expressionism: "How you wear your hair speaks of the inner self." The message may be simpler. For many men, it may just be "I don't have to put up with haircuts anymore." The tyke who protested when he was first lifted into a barber's chair may be the ponytailed man in the power pinstripe suit...
...half-canton of Appenzell Inner-Rhoden has long and proudly refused women the right to vote in local elections. Last week it stepped into the 20th century, but not because it wanted to. The Swiss Supreme Court in Lausanne declared that Appenzell's 4,500 women over age 20 did have the right to vote. The justices, responding to a petition by two Appenzell women, ruled that a 1981 amendment to the constitution declaring men and women equal before the law should take precedence over cantonal legislation...