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...distributed." His goal, he says, will be to elect a leader "with different morals than the President." The lifers will talk about death that hides in the palm of a hand; the choicers about empowerment a woman can hold between two fingers. Although the advent of RU 486 could greatly change the nature of the abortion debate, it is unlikely to make it go away...
...while Harvard managers and employees say the advent of the joint councils has been one of the most positive results of the union's focus on employee empowerment, even supporters say the councils need improvement...
...massive national series of antiwar protests. In 1986 he devised an eight- month march by more than a thousand people across the U.S. to promote nuclear disarmament; the organization went bankrupt just as the marchers reached the Mojave Desert. Mixner did not focus on gay rights until the advent of AIDS. He has lost 192 friends to the disease, including his business partner of 12 years, Peter Scott. Says Mixner: "Going on Nightline was easy - compared with burying Peter. Everything has a perspective...
...advent of iron is the subject of an extremely beautiful show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, curated by Carmen Gimenez, with excellent catalog essays by Dore Ashton and Francisco Calvo Serraller. "Picasso and the Age of Iron" involves three European artists -- Alberto Giacometti, Gonzalez and Picasso -- and two American ones, David Smith and Alexander Calder. Its time span is from 1928, when Picasso made an open frame of iron rods with a pinhead and two tiny startled hands and called it Figure, to Smith's maturity in the early 1960s. But its core...
Weishampel is also using his dental analyses to determine how the advent and proliferation of flowering plants during the early Cretaceous might have influenced population levels of large, plant-eating dinosaurs. There is some evidence, he says, that the spread of flowering plants hurt large-bodied dinosaurs like sauropods and helped the somewhat smaller duck-billed and horned dinosaurs. When flowering plants began to dominate the landscape in the mid-Cretaceous, they edged out the conifers, tree ferns and other plants that the long-established sauropods depended on. The smaller vegetarians, which evolved much later, had not become...