Word: coate
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Doctors now understand, after 40 years of using it, how one antituberculosis medication works: Isoniazid interferes with a protective coat around the TB bacillus. The discovery may lead to new medicines that could overcome drug-resistant forms...
...most of all he is busy being himself: God. Fyodor Shurpin's Morning of Our Motherland, 1946-48, is a portrait of Stalin in the literal form of the Pantocrator, contemplating a new world he has brought into being. He wears a white coat of radiant purity and is bathed in the light of an early spring morning. Behind him stretch the green pastures of a transfigured Russia, Poussin (as it were) with tractors and electricity pylons, and shy plumes of smoke rising to greet the socialist dawn from far-off factories. As Dante wrote, in God's will...
...invention to the tune of one of Frank Sinatra's enduring hits. "So start today," Collins crooned into a microphone. "Love DNA, and do it ouuuuurrr way." The star of this spoof stood 6 ft. 4 in. tall. He wore cowboy boots beneath his white lab coat and slung a stethoscope round his neck like a wayward tie. And as his last note faded, the delighted audience gave him a standing ovation...
...Christmas morning a nearly frozen John Steward crawled out from the cardboard box across the street from Columbia University. He has lived there for two years, but because it's not a valid address, he can't collect welfare. The lone nickel inside his coat pocket would hardly get him breakfast. But Steward wasn't worried. While he was panhandling for spare change the day before on upper Broadway in Manhattan, someone handed him a booklet of vouchers good for a dollar's worth of food at any of seven local stores. Trading them in for a bagel and coffee...
...worked even better than Shwayder hoped. In its first year the New York coat drive distributed 10,000 winter coats. This year the goal is 75,000. The coats are collected in boxes at police precincts and bank branches, at more than 50 companies and at major commuter points like Grand Central station. There New York Cares has set up a display of coats from such celebrities as New York Knicks star Charles Smith (a towering blue worsted) and Mayor-elect Rudolph Giuliani (a staid gray tweed) to tweak the conscience of suburbanites. The coats are turned over...