Word: reactional
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...rush on custom haberdashery now? Ford sees it as a reaction to too much technology and information. "I think we've lost the human touch a bit in fashion," says Ford, "I go into stores, and there's nobody to help me. I get recorded voices on the end of the phone. I see this as a throwback to something that we have lost...
...What's your reaction to Live from New York: An Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live, a book that describes you picking on a gay member of the cast? -Paul Dillon, Spokane, Wash...
...very low level of toxicity to rodents. "It looks like it [the melamine] is causing direct cell death in the kidneys and this is not something we would have expected to happen," says Goldstein. "I don't think it's pure melamine. Maybe there is some kind of reaction with the metabolism of melamine that would cause this...
Epstein's central psychobiological contention--that teens have the brain potential to make adult-level judgments--also doesn't hold up. True, teens have better reaction times and memories than adults, and most have adult-like moral-reasoning skills by adolescence. But a 2000 paper in Behavioral Sciences and the Law confirms common sense: adolescents score significantly worse than adults on assessments of their psychosocial maturity. Teens may know how to make good decisions, but they don't actually make good decisions as often as adults. Epstein points out that some teens do score higher than some adults...
Although it's not his taste, Krakoff points out a growing trend in the market for more organic styles like those of Castle, John Makepeace and John Dickinson. "That organic look is more fashionable now, maybe as a reaction against what was hot last season, you know, the plastic stuff," he says...