Word: dusts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...covers of books in this genre are too often tarted up with sensational titles and exaggerated claims. But once you get beyond the dust jacket, much of the advice, while hardly earthshaking, tends toward the irrefutable. Who doesn't believe that you're likely to live longer if you eat in a healthy fashion and exercise sensibly? Dipping into these pages can be like having a personal trainer. Whatever your age, they make you feel like jumping out of your chair and running a lap or two. Each author has a favorite technique. But those looking for a miracle will...
...When will the gently twinkling lights be snuffed out by a sudden explosion of fire? When will the neon lines of tracers redraw the contours of the landscape in unthinkable ways? Will the trees and houses and mosques and suspect sites spreading peacefully toward the horizon be nothing but dust and rubble tomorrow? Will people...
Medical researchers have debated for years whether allergy shots are effective over the long term. A newly reported 10-year study says the answer is yes. Researchers in Japan monitored a group of children who received injections. More than half overcame their allergies to dust mites...
...female, a "Cradle Catholic" and ineligible for the priesthood. I believe that when the dust eventually settles on the issue of female ordination, the church will need to publicly reassess its treatment of women, as it has done for so many other shameful episodes in its history: the Inquisition, Galileo and its conduct during World War II. As for the Vatican official quoted in your article who said, "Some of these women are well intentioned, but the bulk of them are power-hungry witches," someone needs to tell him that using witch as a derogatory term for women perceived...
...they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines, a macaw overhead, the smallest insect. A bug the size of a piece of dust crawled across my hand as I wrote about it crawling across my hand...