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to decorate — especially a person
- According to Rubinstein, who has documented the Micronesian epidemic in a series of brilliant papers, Suicide ideation among adolescents appears widespread in certain Micronesian communities and is popularly expressed in recent songs composed locally and aired on Micronesian radio stations, and in graffiti adorning T-shirts and high school walls.Chapter 7 (8% in)
- "The simple, unadorned facts that constitute the 'kernel of truth' in this rumor," Allport writes, "were from the outset distorted in .... three directions."Chapter 6 (37% in)
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