Word: cool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what can be done with that, we don't know." Now things are beginning to change. A variety of health professionals have started to assess rigorously pets' impact on physical and mental health. Meanwhile, the beneficiaries of programs in prisons, hospitals and nursing homes do not much care about cool science but are warmly grateful for what amounts to animal therapy. A groundbreaking study came in 1980, when researchers from the Universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania reported on the survival rate of 92 patients with serious heart trouble. Of the 39 without pets, eleven were dead within a year...
Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis was a long-distance runner before it was cool, finishing the Boston Marathon as a high school senior in 1951. His political career had its own Heartbreak Hill, a devastating primary defeat when he first sought re-election as Governor in 1978. But Dukakis hit his stride with a comeback victory in 1982, and since then has compiled a record of achievement from welfare reform to tax reduction that has earned him a laurel wreath as one of the best Governors in the country. Last week Dukakis embarked on the most grueling endurance race of them...
Many loyal customers of Revolution Books hope they will stay near the Square. "I'd rather buy my books there than get a 10 percent discount at the Coop. They're cool," said a Harvard student who frequents the bookstore...
...interior of the sun will now be hotter than ever, a dense core of incandescent helium surrounded by a thin shell of hot, fusing hydrogen. Over the next few hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become a red giant, so large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen sun stretches no farther...
...matter about as big as the earth, but with 60% of the sun's original mass, glowing blue-hot at perhaps 120,000 degrees C. That stage will mark the end of the sun's active life; its nuclear fires will never again turn on. Slowly it will cool until it is first a white dwarf, still glowing, then a cold black dwarf, a cinder. In the blackness of space, as in Fire and Ice, the lifeless earth will pass into an eternal deep freeze...