Word: 20th
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Prescription pads, clipboards and patient charts are so 20th century. In the era of CT scans, gene-splicing and stem-cell breakthroughs, handwritten record-keeping feels about as outmoded as the fluoroscope. It's more than just strangely retro; it's fantastically expensive...
...Alaskans like Colburn are worried that on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Valdez accident, the spill and its toll are in danger of being forgotten - even as new offshore oil and gas exploration is being considered in Alaska. In 2007, former President George W. Bush ended a long-standing executive ban on offshore oil drilling in Bristol Bay in the southeastern waters of the Bering Sea, potentially opening up what's been called America's "fish basket" to the fossil fuels industry. Although the Obama Administration has slowed the process, it hasn't stopped it - and Alaska...
...glaciers, spoke last night to a small group of students about his observations. The talk—co-hosted by the Harvard Mountaineering Club and the Environmental Action Committee—centered on the new exhibit, which compares pictures taken by Arnold recently to pictures taken in the mid-20th century by former Mountaineering Club president and renowned photographer H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. ’33. Kevin F. Jones ’09, the current president of the mountaineering club, said that the idea to host Arnold came from club member Eliza A. Lehner...
...interest in the female situation. “I’m a feminist, but not in the way that I belong to a group,” Schyfter says. “I never belonged to any group, but the only revolution that really had success in the 20th century was the women’s revolution.”Since 2007, however, she has returned to filming documentaries, partly due to lack of funding. “I was tired of knocking on every door and every possible institution and every possible producer,” she says...
...hard-line backers are to accept Funes' narrow victory of 51% to Avila's 49%. But Avila's prompt concession was an encouraging sign that El Salvador will probably avoid unrest. And it was just as encouraging a signal that the country may have completed its evolution from a 20th century "tomb" to a cradle of more temperate 21st century politics...