Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...role to play," says MacLeod, "and he played it with courage and honor." Of necessity, though, he had to grow into the role. The young aristocrat with a love of fast cars and beautiful women became the warrior king who took control of his country's army from its British mentors and personally commanded his forces in a bloody battle against Palestinian insurrectionists in the "Black September...
...first place do we want government money invested in private companies? The world has had 50 years of bitter experience with the failure and sheer destructiveness of nationalization. After World War II, the British Labour Party seized the "commanding heights" of the economy, nationalizing everything big in sight: coal and steel and rails and utilities. By 1980 Britain was the sick man of Europe...
What made anyone think fiber could prevent colon cancer in the first place? It all started 30 years ago, when a British medical missionary named Denis Burkitt suggested that the reason colon cancer is rare in Africa is that Africans consume much more fiber than North Americans and Europeans. Perhaps, later researchers argued, the extra fiber sweeps the bowel clean of potential carcinogens or somehow alters the intestinal chemistry to retard tumor growth. A few small studies supported the link, while others didn...
...human -- a scientific study in today's issue of Nature says so. You can blame it on our genes. British researchers have concluded that harmful mutations in human genetic material are frequent and persistent. But don't worry. "Most species don't last more than a few million years anyway," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, who notes that by that yardstick, we've still got some time left on earth. Besides, the study basically confirms "the long-held speculation that humans have a high mutation rate...
Dench, 64, may be one of Britain's hardest-working actors. She is currently filming her third Bond movie and starring in London's West End in the Peter Hall-directed Filumena, and she often stars in British sitcoms. But amazingly, Dench confesses that she still suffers from stage fright. "It's anxiety and fear that create adrenaline, which for me is petrol," she explains. Worst of all, she says, is actually watching herself onscreen. She has never seen some of her movies, and only watched Shakespeare in Love to prepare for a U.S. press junket. "I'm very squeamish...