Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...followed the course his father had set. Le learned French and English, read voraciously in three languages and wrote passionate denunciations of communism. He joined the South Vietnamese army, then worked for the U.S. embassy in Saigon. In the last, worst years of the Vietnam War, he wrote a column for the newspaper Hoa Binh...
...panic attacks," says Jennifer, now 18. "That's when your stomach goes up and you can't leave the bathroom and you get sweaty and you get headaches and the world closes in on you." Her world eventually narrowed so far that for several weeks she could not set foot outside her home...
...drugs, reward and punishment, and especially counseling -- not just of the youngster but of the entire family. The goal is to instill in the children a feeling of self-worth and to teach them discipline and responsibility. Parents, meanwhile, are taught how to provide emotional support, assert authority and set limits...
Patrons at the Blue Mill Tavern in New York City's Greenwich Village last Monday were greeted by a rare sight: the TV set in the bar was tuned not to Monday Night Football but to a documentary on PBS. On Capitol Hill, Senator Ted Kennedy, a Yankee Democrat, and Senator John Warner, a Virginia Republican, were riveted by the same show. Across the U.S., people debated the battlefield tactics of Robert E. Lee, marveled at the letter-writing eloquence of Civil War soldiers and traded stories of ancestors who fought in the nation's great holocaust...
...show promises to have a healthy life beyond last week's telecast. A companion book is selling briskly (Knopf; $50), and a nine-volume set of videocassettes is being offered by TIME-LIFE Video ($188.82). More than 7,000 schools and libraries have queried PBS about acquiring the cassettes and accompanying teaching materials. PBS has already scheduled a rerun for January...