Word: subject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accused were women, usuallyaging from their late forties to their earlyfifties. Of the thirty-one "witches" tried and putto death, seven of the accused were men andtwenty-four of them were women. These seven menwere also associated with "known" witches, and"...in most cases...the ["known" witch] was theprimary subject, with the man becoming implicatedthrough a literal process of guilt byassociation."3 The accused were usually wives andmothers of "...solidly English stock and mostly`Puritan' religion" (Demos, p. 71). In thesecharacteristics, the accused did not deviate fromthe cultural norm. They did deviate in severalnoteable ways, however: most of the accused...
...thought it was great. But between ten and 13, I went through some rough times. The kids wouldn't play with me. They said my mother didn't want me." There was worse to come. In a health and sex-education class, "my teacher went all off on the subject of how adopted kids are second choice," she recalls angrily. "He said it was the worst thing you could do to a child -- if you had a choice, you should have an abortion...
...offing. In the provocative new book Heart Failure, excerpted in the September issue of the Atlantic magazine, Thomas Moore, a Washington-based writer, contends that overzealous crusaders against cholesterol have exaggerated the benefits of low-fat diets. Moore, who spent four years reviewing the scientific literature on the subject, acknowledges that researchers have established a link between high cholesterol and increased risk of heart disease. He argues, however, that diet modification cannot do much to lower cholesterol, that reducing blood levels of the suspect substance has not been proved to prolong life and that cholesterol-lowering drugs may carry more...
...stories strike such emotional resonance among their authors as this week's cover on adoption. The profound complexities of the subject were especially well understood by at least one correspondent, researcher and writer: all three have experienced adoption firsthand. Los Angeles correspondent James Willwerth, who suggested the project, is the adoptive father of Piya, 5, and Mike, 4. Already parents of a son, David, who arrived the conventional way, Willwerth and his wife Ardis chose a daughter and a second son from two different Bangkok orphanages during his assignment in Thailand. Giving a home to "waiting" children "longing for love...
...mustache, whose upswept prongs will be imitated by Salvador Dali's, seems alert, like antennae. "It is now nine years since any ((portrait)) has been made," Philip IV noted in 1653, in the last decade of his and his painter's lives, "and I am little inclined to subject myself to Velazquez's phlegm, nor thus to find further reason to witness how I am growing older...