Word: allowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...play-offs--sorry, Bud--do enable the Lords of Baseball to count the additional money that jingles in their pockets and, in vintage years like this one, allow the rest of us to be reminded how thrilling the old game can be. This year's were as good as it gets, and the World Series that started Saturday may be just as memorable...
...compassionate conservatism." But Falwell and Bush both believe employers should be able to fire people just for being gay. Neither wants gays to be able to marry or adopt children. And Falwell, at least, believes sincerely that gays can change into straights. Indeed, he hopes his softer words will allow that message to meet less resistance in the gay community. Other religious conservatives, like Robert Knight of the Family Research Council, said last week they won't even meet publicly with people like White. A few dozen picketed the Falwell summit...
...fact that it was the week after a full moon, but something prompted an outburst of weirdness in response to the June 28 Science story on Einstein's brain. The first symptom was the declaration from Missouri's self-proclaimed "Prophet King" Kenna Farris: "I would allow science to study my brain, as Einstein's is being studied, but I am taking it with me after I rise from the dead." Next came word from a Michigan woman who claimed, "Like Einstein, I am an avatar (a possessor of a Universal Mind), as well as the reincarnation of the Prophet...
...care online is fear that their privacy will be invaded. What if someone could find out your test results or what's in your medicine chest? To head off such fears, the American Medical Association, with Intel's help, will begin credentialing online doctors. A digital identity card will allow them to transmit medical data to patients securely. Next on our wish list: e-docs who make house calls...
Part of the beauty of subscribing to services that allow you to download music from the Internet is that no one can see you buying that copy of Barry Manilow outtakes. But it turns out that someone has been watching: Each time one of the 13.5 million subscribers to RealNetworks' RealJukebox downloads a song, the company creates a file that includes the user's musical preference, level of computer savvy and sophistication of computer equipment, as well as a catalog of CDs they've played on their ROM drive. That news set off alarm bells with web privacy advocates...