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Word: biff (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here as there is for anything else. It is like Back to the Future, Part II. In the movie Doc Brown goes to a blackboard and draws a chart. The top line is history as it actually occurred. But if you make this teeny little change, which is Biff Tannen getting that sports almanac, then history veers off. It isn't that it is random that it happened the second way. You see, people mistakenly think that my book Wonderful Life is a claim that evolution is random, totally chaotic and unexplainable. That is not what historical explanation holds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STEPHEN JAY GOULD: Evolution, Extinction And the Movies | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

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