Word: broads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this broad-based appeal that attracted Redmond to ally with Seton...
...ambulances and Will Smith in his underwear. Director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide) wastes little time between action sequences, building up an almost unbearable intensity, augmented by fast camera cuts and quick scene changes. Yet the overall effect is not a choppy compilation of distinct scenes, but a broad tapestry of chases, gunfire, high-tech tracking devices and explosions, coupled with a moderate portion of complicated plot development...
...offers does not. The whole title of Dawkins' book, Unweaving the Rainbow, alludes to an accusation that the romantic poet, John Keats, once directed at Newton for "unweaving the rainbow by reducing it to its prismatic colors." And so, instead of speaking of science and humanities in a broad sense, Dawkins uses Unweaving the Rainbow to function as an odd sort of rebuttal in which he accuses Keats (and every other romantic poet who criticized science) as being patently wrong. Although Dawkins' writing is lush and poetic, his approach is bizarre and confusing. Dawkins wants to say ultimately, that Newton...
...stock picking, but you'll probably pay a price in lower returns on your investment. Fully 60% of investment clubs regularly underperform the stock market, according to a new study from UC Davis. Your returns will be higher in an actively managed mutual fund, and higher still in a broad index fund...
...Ritalin acts on the brain or why it helps children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder focus. For that matter, even ADHD is still something of a mystery to doctors, who speak of it sometimes as if it were a single condition and sometimes as if it were a broad range of problems. Researchers suspect that the disorder stems from an inadequate supply of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain--a hypothesis that is supported in part by the fact that Ritalin boosts dopamine levels. But proof of any of this has been tough to come...