Word: creations
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...April 12, 1955: The creation of a vaccine for polio is announced. Two Harvard professors, Thomas H. Weller and John F. Enders, aid in the development of the vaccine. The two would later receive the Nobel Prize for developing a method of cultivating polio viruses on non-nervous tissue...
Arabs enjoy rhyming puns, and the word for the 1948 creation of Israel--nakba, meaning disaster--is only a consonant away from their word for disappointment, naksa. That is how, with crushing understatement, Arabs describe the losses of the Six-Day War. For Omar and most other Palestinians, the two words are often interchangeable, and it was no surprise that when I visited Jalazon recently, they were commemorating the nakba and the naksa rolled into one. Indeed, when I press Omar to talk about the war he was born into, his thoughts leap to 1948, as though one event were...
LAWRENCE KRAUSS, a Case Western Reserve University physicist, in a sarcastic appraisal of Kentucky's new Creation Museum, which presents the Bible's version of Earth's history--that the planet was created in a single week just a few thousand years ago. The museum opened on May 28 as protesters rallied outside...
...Cravings Chef service, a couple's massage and breakfast in bed. The hotel even created a new position in April called the director of fun--one of the few in the entire lodging industry. With a background in the cruise business, Joshua Riffe has a mission to oversee the creation of leisure activities and programs. Part of his job begins up to two weeks before a guest arrives, with a phone call to inquire about any special reservations or amenities and inform the individual of local events that will be taking place during his or her stay...
...hear that attitude echo now, decades later, when leaders at the National Association of Evangelicals circulate a letter on global warming and "creation care" as a moral imperative, or when megapastor Rick Warren addresses AIDS and poverty as moral issues, and says, when it comes to politics, "I'm not left wing, I'm not right wing, I'm for the whole bird." Warren cites Graham as his mentor; he has absorbed the lessons that reflected Graham's unprecedented and sometimes painful journey through the inner rings of power. There is a reason why, even now as he resides...