Word: cut
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, since today's greenhouse gases will remain in the atmosphere for a century even if all further emissions are cut off immediately, environmentalists are growing increasingly concerned that their window of opportunity to slow down warming is slamming shut. Says Michael Oppenheimer, the Environmental Defense Fund's chief scientist: "The world is already committed to a significant level of warming, no matter what...
...profile. A serial killer often feels "a profound sense of rejection, usually along maternal lines," and creates a fantasy world in which he has complete control of the fantasy. "If he'd jumped in with those women, he'd not have had control. On equal terms, he can't cut it. On a date, for instance. It doesn't fulfill the fantasy of control...
...dressed by Helmut Lang, cavorting with Tony Curtis and George Foreman. On the cover, Hillary Clinton looks heavenward as if invoking divine guidance for her husband's "sin of weakness," Gwyneth Paltrow crawls on a leopard-print rug, and George W. Bush looks as if he's about to cut loose with some earthy language (as he does inside). The juice is in the juxtaposition, says Brown, as she lovingly leafs through her 254-page creation in her office 56 floors above Carnegie Hall. "I wanted to race up and down that high-low keyboard," she says...
...advice: if you can't wait for the next Free-PC lottery, buy a $1,000 system from Gateway or Dell instead. You'll get a 400-MHz system with monitor, a year of prepaid Net access and a one- to three-year warranty. Financing plans can cut the up-front cost to just $36 a month. It's not free, but it's likely to be headache-free...
...actually eat their peas rather than just shoving them aside. One tip: you may have to serve two-year-olds a new food frequently--as often as 15 times over several months. As Roberts and Heyman explain, there's an evolutionary reason for toddlers to be picky eaters: it cut down a tiny hunter-gatherer's chances of food poisoning. Most important, don't trigger their natural rebellious streak by letting on that you think the food is good for them...