Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could repeat Wilmut's breakthrough. And that's where Teruhiko Wakayama comes in. He's a 31-year-old Japanese postdoctoral student who was studying cloning as a hobby at the University of Hawaii, where his lab director, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, was famous for telling students "not to be afraid of asking crazy questions. The crazier the better...
...want to sign, start your own petition or send a letter to almost any official, from a local parks commissioner to a U.S. Senator. Not sure to whom to vent? Search for the right recipient; if that office doesn't have an e-mail address, your message is faxed. Afraid of spam? Don't be: your e-mail address remains secret...
Chilled by a possible blizzard of year 2000-bug lawsuits--one estimate sees $1 trillion in damages--corporations are asking the feds for help. "Because of fear of litigation, many companies are afraid of sharing information" about their readiness says HARRIS MILLER, president of the Information Technology Association of America. President CLINTON agrees, and plans to send a bill to Congress this week designed to get companies to reveal how Y2K-O.K. their computers are, in exchange for partial protection from lawsuits. "The maker of any such statement shall not be liable" for it if the company made...
Both grapple with a universal truth: boys have complicated relationships with their mothers. Pollack, who is alarmed by what he calls the "silent crisis" of "normal" boys, says we live in a confused society in which mothers are afraid to cling to their sons. On the one hand, we ask 1990s boys to be sensitive and expressive, and on the other, we saddle them with the culture's outdated notions of masculinity. The result is what Pollack calls the ever present "boy code"--a stoic, uncommunicative, invulnerable stance that does not allow boys to be the warm, empathic human beings...
...aging one, Don Diego (played with impeccable elegance by Anthony Hopkins), making a comeback after suffering a long imprisonment, to fight a resurgence of tyranny in old, Spanish-controlled California. In the process he recruits a young, nimbler apprentice, Alejandro (portrayed by Antonio Banderas), who's not afraid of acting a little dumb until his mentor smartens him up, cools his ardent blood and teaches him the skills that make him worthy of wearing the black mask of the gallant outlaw...