Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...electronic melting pot -- a million square feet of whirring appliances and beeping devices that are turning into one another faster than you can say digital convergence. Telephones are morphing into televisions. Televisions are evolving into computers. Computers are turning into video games. And they're spawning a new breed of gimcracks that fall somewhere in between, from satellite-driven global positioning devices for cars to cellular pagers that beam messages -- Dick Tracy-style -- directly to your wristwatch...
...course, the real benefit of total randomization will be the realizing of President Lowell's original goal for the House system: a greater interaction among vastly different students that would breed understanding and mutual respect. The College faces one of its most important decisions for the next century in the coming days. One can only hope that administrators will make the brave choice and listen to the voices of the many students who, unfortunately, remain unrepresented by the U.C. Harvard College must shoulder its enormous responsibility of educating its sons and daughters not only in literature, chemistry, or history...
...White House, all atwitter, hasn't yet determined how to neutralize Newt. Chief of staff Leon Panetta likened Gingrich to an "out-of-control talk-show host," an unsubtle reference to Rush Limbaugh. But Limbaugh is also the most popular of the breed -- and like Rush, it doesn't seem to matter that a lot of what Newt says is mostly not true. Audiences love it -- as they loved Reagan -- even when they know that what they're hearing is often baseless. For many | who applaud Gingrich and Limbaugh, the catchy rantings are acceptable caricatures of a caricature they already...
Most of these genetic problems would disappear if Americans could somehow be persuaded to abandon purebreds in favor of mutts. While individual mixed-breed dogs have problems, the animals on average are a lot healthier than their high-class cousins. "Mutts are the Hondas of the dog world," says syndicated animal columnist Mike Capuzzo of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "They're cheap, reliable and what nature intended in the first place. They are what you would get at a canine Club Med if you left them alone for six years." There are "breeds" in the mutt world, just as there...
...supply side, critics of the AKC argue that the kennel club should follow the lead of its European counterparts by imposing health standards as part of its registration process. Rather than wait for that step, individual- breed clubs are taking their own action. At least three Rottweiler clubs have ruled that dogs missing more than one tooth, which can be a sign of a genetic defect, may not be bred. English springer spaniel owners are encouraging one another not to breed dogs with temperament problems; they want to eliminate what they call the "rage syndrome," a type of brain seizure...