Word: bits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...country by rebuilding broken vets like Dole. He has fought for farmers, for veterans, now for victims of prostate cancer. There were few Republicans in 1974 who would have teamed up with George McGovern on anything, much less a reinvention of the food-stamp program. But Dole knew a bit more about hunger than the average Senator...
GIMME A BAGEL SHMEER," IS HOW generations of New Yorkers have ordered breakfast. It's Gotham for, "A gracious good morning to you. May I have a bagel with a bit of cream cheese, please?" Though the bagel arrived in America with Jewish immigrants in the early 1900s, until a few years ago, most of the country hadn't enjoyed this half-boiled, half-baked, half-crunchy, half-chewy half-roll...
Hyakutake's status as a return visitor makes it ideal for amateur stargazers but a bit less enticing to scientists. Comets are believed to be leftover material from the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. Millions are still orbiting lazily in a halo called the Oort cloud, far beyond Pluto, where they are perfectly preserved. It's only occasionally that one changes orbit and plunges into the relative warmth of Earth's neighborhood. And the more often a comet returns to be heated, the more its structure and chemical composition are altered...
...much," remembers Nancy Oltrogge, the twins' day-care provider, who presided over the process. No one ever instructed the girls about who should move which foot when. "They knew what to do," marvels Oltrogge. "We just had to make sure we watched them because they were a little bit top-heavy and could tip over." Occasionally, though, the twins would disagree on which way to go. "All of a sudden," says Oltrogge, "they're going in circles." The twins have graduated to swimming and riding a bike...
...which earned $18.3 million at the box office its first weekend, the best opening record of any film this year--portrays a gay couple whose old-fashioned family values even Bob Dole conservatives could love. And Lane's funny, flouncy yet surprisingly restrained performance--topped by a bravura drag bit as a Barbara Bush-style matron--is a big reason...