Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disposal of the enduring human fascination with grunt and groan. By the early decades of the present century, there had emerged in the U.S. an entertainment industry that would eventually prove to be all-pervasive and ever more given to decking out our base impulses with sweaty and imaginative detail. It awaited only the youth culture that began stirring and shaking in the 1950s to take full advantage of the possibilities in rock, films and TV. The result was a pop culture more pointed and grown up, but also more shameless and adolescent; sometimes both at the same time...
...everyone is well aware, the trend in housing changes has attempted to incorporate students' choice (i.e. their control over the none-too-little detail of Where they would live for three years) with the University's much -Celebrated (and recent) commitment to "diversity." Of course, we have evidently come far enough that the complete repudiation of student choice is not only conceivable, but feasible for the administration to enforce. Instead of attempting to maintain some balance between these two concepts, the administration has decided to ignore one in order to achieve the other. And what really has been achieved...
Langone's work is wonderfully provocative, notonly because it's filled with anecdotes dug fromthe bowels of Harvard's Countway Library ofMedicine but also because his sources arepredominantly primary. Langone observed a grossanatomy class firsthand and shadowed medicalstudents and doctors to detail their experiences...
Today, he is best remembered in the school forstarting an annual block party patterned after thestriver's Row festivals he knew as a child. Braggorchestrated every detail, form the dunking tanksto the parents who turned hot dogs...
...sudden flows of sticky, honey-colored tree resin have ensnared all manner of small life forms, including beetles, spiders, and even lizards and frogs. Moreover, as this natural polymer hardens, it becomes virtually airtight and waterproof. Not only are extinct organisms like Cano's bee preserved in exquisite anatomical detail, but biological molecules such as dna appear to be largely protected from deterioration. When something gets caught in amber, says Wheeler, it's like putting it into a time capsule...