Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cure or vaccine is discovered before then. Courts and administrative agencies in about half the states have already decided that AIDS falls within the scope of state-level disability statutes. Last week's decision from the high bench sent a complementary message. "The message is of common sense in a time of crisis," proclaimed Thomas Stoddard, executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay-rights organization. "It is that people deserve individualized treatment, compassion and fairness...
Realizing that Fragile X is more common than previously believed, doctors have begun to recommend that all children with unexplained cases of mental retardation be tested for the syndrome. At the very least, they say, such examination will reveal if the child's condition is hereditary and will enable parents to evaluate the risk of having another affected child. Fragile X can also be diagnosed prenatally by means of amniocentesis. But doctors cannot yet determine whether the fetus will be affected or simply be a carrier...
...this narrow focus lie both the greatest weaknesses and strengths of Mating Birds. The novel begins, "In a few days I am to die," but the common 20th century technique of telling a story from the end is not carried off with particular novelty or innovation. So far as contemporary novels go, the plot is largely predictable. It follows the protagonist, Sibiya, from a Zula reservation to his enrollment in school, to expulsion after participation in anti-apartheid riots, to his progressive obsession with Veronica at a beach, to forbidden copulation in her bungalow, to discovery, trial and sentencing. There...
...Embarrassing, but funny" said John P. Siracuse '87 of the strip-a-gram his roommates sent him for his 22nd birthday. Siracuse, who was attending a formal dinner in the Winthrop House Junior Common room when the stripper entered, said he was very surprised when the unfamiliar woman walked up to his table...
...SUNS three years ago, they were a nascent three-piece outfit featuring drummer Peter Prescott, formerly of Mission of Burma. At the time, they were playing with the wretched Ben Vaughan Combo, opening up for a Violent Femmes show. The trio's songs were rough, half-improvised ditties with common foods like popcorn and margarine being the typical subject matter. It's no wonder I did not think much of them...