Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the poisonous atmosphere on Capitol Hill as House Democrats lose their Speaker, the new attention to speaking fees, lobbyist-paid vacations and pac money is long overdue. -- Republican pit bull Newt Gingrich, whose accusations scuttled Wright, thirsts for more blood. Some Democrats hope it will...
...star even back then, and she loved politics--it was obviously in her blood," says Nicholas T. Mitropoulis, former assistant director of the Institute of Politics and a classmate of the prime minister at Oxford. "She was a great speaker--passionate, articuluate and charismatic...it was clear to me that she was destined to do great things," he adds...
...Exterminate the 27th Army! Avenge blood with blood!" people in the crowd chanted as they handed buns, eggs and cigarettes to the soldiers...
...Mexico experiment called attention to an emerging field in science called chronobiology, the study of the body's innate, rhythmic patterns. Today researchers realize that many human characteristics, from basic physiological functions such as blood pressure and body temperature to mental sharpness and moods, follow such patterns. Some cycles are as brief as seconds; the heart's permeability to certain chemical ions appears to shift back and forth in less than a minute. Others are measured in months; some people regularly fall into deep depressions in winter and cheer up in summer...
...volunteer emerges after 131 days alone in a New Mexico cave and sheds new light on the innate biological rhythms that mark everything from blood pressure to mood...