Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book still maintains a hint of the political leanings that inspired its creation. The tone falls somewhere between wry-liberal and responsible-moderate, amiably contemptuous of extremists of the Right or Left. Barone himself says he has turned more conservative since the days of the Vietnam protests, but he still proudly describes himself as a Democrat. His concern for the future of his party has led him to several of the recent soul-searching seminar Democrats have held since their 1980 debacle...
...more esoteric tools of 20th century science: quantum mechanics, a mathematical way of looking at the paradoxically dual nature of matter, whose smallest components sometimes behave like waves, sometimes like particles. But their results have everyday importance, for example, in the development of techniques for measuring pollution and the creation of new drugs and chemicals...
...Beverly Hills Diet is the creation of Californian Judy Mazel, 37, an aspiring actress until she became a nutritional guru. Mazel allows only fruit the first ten days-as much as five pounds of grapes a day-and no meat, poultry or fish until Day 19. Some doctors say the book should be listed under fiction. A leading nutrition expert says, "If you went to a bookstore and bought a history that said the Declaration of Independence was signed in 1827 or World War I began in 1905, you'd be pretty angry." If followed too long, the Beverly...
RUSSELL HOBAN'S most celebrated creation is a badger named Frances. Few American children make it through kindergarten without reading Bread and Jam for Frances, Bedtime for Frances, or Hoban's four other stories about literature's most appealing marsupial...
...creation of a permanent committee composed of government and labor leaders to discuss Poland's pressing economic problems. Mutual distrust, however, remains so profound that the suggestion quickly became the focus of a new row between the party and Solidarity. The union's eleven-man presidium rejected the offer because it objected to the inclusion of the old Communist-controlled unions, which still claim to have 4 million members. The government termed Solidarity's response "outrageous," but nonetheless accepted the union's offer to hold bilateral talks on how to alleviate the growing food shortages...