Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Three years ago, Sweet was just another unsung songwriter from the Nebraska heartland. His third album, Girlfriend, an eclectic melange of 1960s-style guitars and '90s-style attitude, had been passed over by most of the major labels. Then, the president of Zoo Entertainment, a venturesome Hollywood- based record company, happened to hear Sweet's disc playing in a fellow executive's office. Despite the fact that Zoo had already turned Sweet down once, he was immediately signed to the label, and Girlfriend went on to become an alternative rock...
...marine mammals -- and most other animals, for that matter -- should never be held captive, even under the most humane conditions. Overt mistreatment, they say, is only the most blatant form of abuse; another is keeping animals in cramped spaces. Says Richard O'Barry, who trained five Flippers for the 1960s TV show and then became a marine-mammal activist: "Whales and dolphins live in a world of sound. In a tank, their sounds only bounce back at them. It's like living in a hall of mirrors. It has to drive them crazy." In fact, dolphins have been known...
Clark said the law school adopted a hardship leave policy in the late 1960s, and he said that under the current rules, someone in Ginsburg's situation would be granted a Harvard diploma...
Harvard, which maintains anti discrimination policy that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, has grappled with the problems caused by the ban on gays in the military due to its ties to ROTC for several years. Since the mid 1960s Harvard pays MIT to provide training for Harvard students on ROTC scholarships...
Thalidomide has long been synonymous with tragedy. In the early 1960s, thousands of European women who took the sedative during pregnancy gave birth to children with no arms or legs, and only the vigilance of the Food and Drug Administration prevented a similar disaster in the U.S. But the old drug that once brought despair may one day generate hope for the victims of a modern plague. In an experiment that began in 1992, researchers at Rockefeller University are testing the possibility that thalidomide can fight the ravages of AIDS...