Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Timmy is a calculating little guy, the creation of calculating big guys. Like everyone else in the movie, he appears to have been morphed into existence by people who aren't writing or directing in the usual sense of those words but are operating a computer whose keypad is marked with a few simple signs: sentiment, sweetness, lovable mischievousness. The coldness with which these filmmakers pursue warmth is -- no other word for it -- bone chilling...
...first involves the production of a substance called tumor necrosis factor, or TNF, which fights both malignant cells and infections. But if too much TNF is produced, as apparently happens in leprosy, AIDS and tuberculosis, the body makes itself sicker. The second process stymied by thalidomide is the creation of new blood vessels, which is crucial to the development of arms and legs in the fetus. The eventual goal of researchers is to alter thalidomide somehow so that it continues to inhibit TNF without harming nascent arteries and veins...
...about 25 minority students protest the lack of minority professors and slow progress in the creation of ethnic studies courses at Harvard. The students rally again the next day and collect more than 500 signatures on petitions in support of their cause...
...creation of the Radcliffe Center would allow everyone to ignore the obvious. Radcliffe has a proud and important past--it served as source of education for women when such sources were scarce. But its use as a college is obsolete. Once the powers-that-were decided to make the Harvard experience co-ed, Radcliffe was destined to be little to be little more than a mystery...
Weld also says he believes cutting taxes is essential for job creation and economic growth. While the state's unemployment rate has decreased during his administration, Weld says he is still not satisfied with the state's economy...