Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...body, after all, is just a machine--albeit a wet, cranky, willful one--and, as with all machines, it should be possible to extend the warranty. "There is no evidence we know of that human life expectancy is anywhere close to its ultimate limit," says James Vaupel, a Duke University demographer and the soon-to-be director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Germany, "if there is an ultimate limit...
...Duke. "Students can enjoy...spicy couscous with vegetables...
...mainstay of dance companies and dancing schools alike; now the Brooklyn Academy of Music has come up with a fresh take on the classic: Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker, which tells the story of a grandmother who relives her youthful romance in the great Harlem nightclubs--all to Duke Ellington's jazz-and-gospel-tinged arrangement of Tchaikovsky...
DIED. BERNARD LAFFERTY, 51, the reportedly hard-drinking and spendthrift butler who won the trust of tobacco heiress Doris Duke; of yet-to-be-determined causes; in Los Angeles. After prosecutors cleared him of allegations that he had conspired to hasten Duke's death, he resigned his lucrative position as co-executor of her $1.2 billion estate and settled for $4.5 million plus $500,000 a year...
Students held picket signs--"David Duke supports 209. Do you?" and "Education is our right, Affirmative Action is our fight" were popular slogans--and chanted "They say diversity, we say hypocrisy...