Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tempered by the consideration that this is a pick-'n'-package decade, its denizens choosing parts of many eras and repackaging them for easier and faster consumption. Witness the mini glam-rock revival rippling through the culture just this month. Regard for the Contemporary style, as this breed of modernism is often known, has risen steadily, however. "After living in one of these homes for a week," says Koenig of his designs, "people can never go back to a conventional house with little windows...
Here's one fellow you wouldn't like to meet in a dark alley: 36 feet long, built like a T. rex, a hundred teeth sharp as razors, claws the size of your foot. He's Suchomimus tererensis, an entirely new breed of dinosaur to be unveiled Friday in the journal Science. Suchomimus was discovered -? bit by fossilized bit -? by paleontologist Paul Sereno in Niger, Africa, last year. Now that he's been shipped whole to the States, the world will hear him roar. "With its forearms and its jaws, it would have been able to take down just about...
...soon replaced by genetically-engineered soldiers, who are more advanced in every way. That is, they are stronger, more persistent and have chests that suggest they grew up eating creatine three times a day. Todd, thought dead after a confrontation with the biggest and meanest of the new breed (Cain 607, played by Jason Scott Lee), is sent to a waste disposal planet where he regains consciousness and is befriended by a group of settlers stranded on the intergalactic trash heap...
...Conventions, of course, are little more than scripted beauty pageants these days, but they still attract the pundits like flies. And just re-elected Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge is one of the GOP's new breed of pragmatic managerial governors who draw the broad local support the national party lacks. But why not runner-up New York, where mayor Rudy Giuliani and Governor George Pataki have Manhattan's crime rate way down and the city's popularity way up? "New York is still hostile territory for most Republicans," says veteran TIME political reporter Richard Duncan. "It's closer now than...
After randomization swelled the ranks of a once rare breed-the Quad athlete-Harvard faced a commuter problem. But athletes say the University's recently expanded shuttle system is successfully meeting their needs as they make the early morning trek across the River...