Word: talks
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...Department, having possibly made a comfortable shift from cold war espionage to industrial espionage. CD-ROMs are sold with essential information on millions of citizens. Banks divulge how much money one has; credit companies, how much one owes. Yet privacy is also eagerly, happily surrendered--on radio and TV talk-revelation-boxing shows. Everyone owns a camcorder, so everyone is on TV. One has never been more in the open, or more apart...
Anyone who has ever witnessed the miracle in which infants progress from mewling to "Mama" to "Mine!" knows how critical it is for youngsters to hear normally before they speak their first words. Indeed, many children who don't talk by age two turn out to be deaf. The sooner their disability is discovered and treated, the less likely they are to fall behind in the development of important language and social skills. That is why a growing number of hearing specialists (audiologists) and parents are campaigning for mandatory screening of newborns for hearing loss...
...have heard diet talk in January all my life, maybe because I was brought up in Kansas City, Mo.--a place that in rankings of fattest cities never finishes out of the money. My hometown's fatness, I finally decided, may have something to do with the fact that it finishes last in surveys of how expensive an average meal is from city to city. As I envision the scene, one of my high school friends who has been presented the check for a huge fried-chicken feed says, "You know, we could order this meal all over again...