Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...origin of the Yellow Pig is shrouded in obscurity: Kelly refuses to divulge the secret. Of the many "creation myths," though, Benji N. Fisher '85 offers the most probable explanation: "In Princeton about 30 years ago. David Kelly and Michael Spivak (author of several math textbooks) were drinking buddies, and instead of seeing pink elephants, they saw yellow pigs...
...part of Roosevelt's plans from the start-before 1933 only eight states provided modest pensions based on need-but it took several years to resolve the complex arguments about how much to pay and how to finance the program. Considerable pressure came from the Townsend movement, the creation of Dr. Francis Townsend, a retired physician in California, whose yowl of protest began when he saw three old women sifting through garbage cans for scraps. Townsend wrote a letter to a newspaper demanding $150 a month for all old people, and that demand soon mushroomed into clubs, newspapers, protest...
...half a loaf? Probably not. There was no way a Marxist-Leninist regime could have tolerated an independent entity whose very existence challenged the party's monopoly of power. Accepting even a moderate Solidarity meant ceasing to be a Communist state. At the same time, Solidarity's creation unleashed aspirations in Polish society that were beyond anyone's control. Conflict was unavoidable...
...beyond that broad guideline scientists can let their imaginations roam. Take Penzias,' whose Nobel was awarded for an achievement that is not likely to have much effect on the average telephone user. In the mid-1960s, he and fellow Bell Scientist Robert Wilson detected faint echoes of the creation, the Big Bang that is believed to have formed the universe...
...creation of BWH was the result of a merger in January 1975 of three Harvard teaching hospitals: the Peter Bent Brigham, the Robert W. Brigham, and the Boston Hospital for Women...