Word: sectioning
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...much of the past year, TIME's World section--which covers news of happenings outside the U.S.--has been trying to develop stories designed to connect our readers with what they see in the magazine. The project began almost a year ago, when the magazine published a special report on amputees in Sierra Leone and coordinated with the International Rescue Committee so that readers could make donations to help the injured people they read about. It continued with stories that encouraged readers to assist Latin America's hurricane victims and, in the fall, a similar project to help children orphaned...
There's even a poster for Reefer Madness, the earnestly lunatic, 1930s antimarijuana film that was revived in the irony-drenched '60s and '70s. "We wanted to show how hokey [the movie] was," says Sean Fearns, of the DEA public-affairs section. "It was so naive to think that this kind of thing would keep kids off drugs...
David Allyn's contribution to the growing shelves of the history of sexuality section in the bookstore, Make Love, Not War, boldly claims to be "the first serious treatment of the events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution." Yet sex is a subject almost impossible to keep within the bounds of strict academic discourse. Allyn falls victim to loose scholarship and resorts to anecdotes as proof for unfounded social theories. His thesis, which purports that the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was unique, is simple and unoriginal. Nonetheless, Make Love Not War is an interesting compilation...
...knew that I was going to be a musician; that was it. But The Decoders broke up right after we graduated in 1982. I was immediately inducted into The Sex Execs; I was brought in to bolster up the horn section. And they knew I was a good hang for them: another over-educated dude out there drinking too much beer and trying to be in a rock band...
...Generally...I view the teaching environment as a professional one, in which students have responsibilities to themselves, each other, their section," he says...