Word: worldly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Oooh, baby, baby. It's a wild world." But it's a world that provides wildly inadequate health care for its babies...
...abysmal performance starts getting around, Street & Smith's will probably take him off the cover of the West Coast edition of its college basketball preview. Dick Vitale will probably claim he was just kidding when he called Miner "the best thing to happen to USC since football." The basketball world will stop calling Miner "Baby Jordan...
They stand on John F. Kennedy Street, bundled up against the cold and rain, shouting about Yankee imperialism. They tell passing pedestrians that we are fighting an immoral war. They say that the U.S. only serves its own interests by mandating the actions of all countries around the world. They reason that we shouldn't be the world's police officers...
...Nerds will tell you in two words: anti-intellectualism. "There are very few places in this world," says the Manifesto, "where anti-intellectualism runs as high in popular culture as it does in the United States...
Might the Geeks have it backwards? Tomorrow's Nerds may enter the world predisposed to intellectual pursuits, but their minds are still tabula rasa. Might it be the social humiliation they suffer--a result of funny looks, facial blemishes, body odor or one of a thousand other causes--which steers them away from crowds and towards libraries...