Word: creationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Possessing that protein made possible the creation of a vaccine, which when injected into laboratory mice, protected 95 percent of the animals against Lyme disease infection. The body's immune system should react to the protein as it would the bacteria, but without any of the harmful effects of the disease. The vaccination allows the body to build up an arsenal enabling it to quickly defeat the real bacteria should it later attack the body...
Such discussion is hardly new at Harvard, where the last five years has seen the formation of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers and the creation of innovative labor-management "joint councils." At the same time, though, the University has also seen months of sometimes tense negotiations between Harvard and the clerical union over contract terms and other matters...
Even so, Lloyd Webber's creation is probably better than the ponderous London performance. Director Trevor Nunn excels at narrative clarity, which is present in the original, but not at nuancing characters, which is sorely needed with such miscast stars. As Norma, renowned for delicate beauty, Patti LuPone is too tempestuous, too earthy and too coarse of feature, especially her aardvark nose. As her lover, Kevin Anderson looks pudding-faced and pudgy, so long gone to seed that the supposedly vast age difference disappears -- until the finale, when LuPone inexplicably appears 20 years older than she was moments before. While...
...most talked-about prospect for the QVC-HSN merger is the creation of a fifth network on a par with ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox. A portion of the transaction gives QVC -- which is partly owned by cable-TV visionary John Malone of Tele-Communications Inc. -- the option to buy a controlling interest in HSN's TV spin-off, Silver King Communications, which owns 12 UHF stations, enough to form the core of a network...
Suffering and losses may be eased this time because the Federal Emergency Management Agency is moving with uncharacteristic speed and vigor. From its creation 14 years ago right through Hurricane Andrew in Florida last summer, FEMA built a reputation for bumble-footed sluggishness. Democratic Senator Ernest Hollings once called its officials "the sorriest bunch of bureaucratic jackasses." Under a new administrator, James Lee Witt, however, FEMA has moved quickly to set up offices in at least eight flooded states. Regional staffs actually went into some areas before flooding became serious to help state officials apply for disaster assistance. Witt...