Word: backward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...utilizes two formal stages as well the seating area. While Shin's staging demonstrates creative imagination, its complexity too often distracts from the action of the play itself. The program provides a long list of instructions advising the audience when to face forward and when to turn their chairs backward in order to follow scenes...
...supernova. The importance of the event caught the imagination of the Science section staff. "It is something I never expected to see in my ( lifetime," says Sciences Editor Leon Jaroff, who conceived and edited the cover. "When you look out on a starry night, you're really looking backward in time. The light from the nearest star was emitted four years and four months ago. This explosion in the southern skies happened before our species evolved. It dramatically marks the death of a star." Adds Bjerklie: "We had been thinking of a cover story...
...version of 1950s American rockabilly and became a leader of the "Angry Young Man" movement that made famous such British pub-rockers as Costello, Graham Parker, Joe Jackson and Nick Lowe. In the 1980s, he has even attempted, with varying degrees of success, to graft synthesizers onto his otherwise backward-looking music...
...family trees were charted indefinitely backward, they would eventually converge on a small group of ancients who were ancestors of us all. Now biologists suggest in a report to Nature that a single female living between 140,000 and 280,000 years ago in Africa was an ancestor of everyone on the earth today. Inevitably -- and to the probable delight of creationists -- many scientists are calling...
...specific sites. After comparing the resulting fragments, the scientists used a computer to analyze the differences between the mtDNA samples and construct a "family" tree. Those differences were so small that they could be explained by assuming the existence of one ancestral mtDNA. Then the biologists extrapolated backward to calculate when that mtDNA existed -- in other words, when Eve lived...