Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best option at present. The more elaborate system of overhead fluorescent lighting recently installed in Quincy house just doesn't cut the cake. And the COCL's scheme to make students buy the highly-touted "safe" halogen lamps is a false hope, for no such lamps currently exist. (The models recently made available were all been returned to the manufacturer...
While several conflicting theories may exist about the relative importance of this or that long-term cause of World War I, historians are fairly well-agreed that Chris O'Donnell is not Ernest Hemingway. "In Love and War" has arrived, for better or worse, as an acceptable romance story, set against a beautifully done backdrop of a world war. But notably absent from this picture is any bona fide sense of Hemingway, as O'Donnell and Sandra Bullock with somewhat disturbing success dilute and plain-vanilla the story into submission...
...epidemiological iceberg, and that tens of thousands of Europeans are unknowingly infected and could die from the disease. Moreover, a number of researchers in the U.S. aren't convinced that some of the same conditions that led to the mad-cow breakout in Britain might not exist here, leading to the same spread of the BSE pathogen. Making things even harder, scientists still can't agree on what that pathogen is--a first step in figuring out how to treat the disease if it does surface. "The only thing that stands between us and an epidemic," says Robert Rohwer, director...
...endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble to locate survivors. Sewage inspection should suit them just fine: cockroaches are scavengers that eat their own. A spokesman for Combat Insect Control Systems, which makes household insecticides, says there is no shortage of roaches for such duties (more than 3,500 species exist), "but it will probably be hard to get the cameras back. Cockroaches don't like to be around people in commotion. And they generally die on their backs...
...violence. Israel's parliament approved the withdrawal by an 87-17 vote late Thursday, after a full day of sometimes acrid debate. Netanyahu was quick to reassure. "We are not leaving Hebron." he said. "We are remaining in all the parts of the city where the Jewish community existed and exists and will continue to exist." But for jubilant Palestinians, everything was different. Jibril Rajoub, Arafat's West Bank security chief, was at the Israeli military headquarters for the historic turnover. "I was detained here five times," said Rajoub, who spent 17 years in Israeli jails, including...