Word: existence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Does team chemistry actually exist? Are there players who deserve roster spots (and, conversely, to be released) on the basis of personality...
...urine test may soon be available for HEART DISEASE. According to a new study, patients with protein in their urine are much more likely to suffer a heart attack or stroke than those without. Protein shows up when arteries in the kidneys are leaky, suggesting that arterial damage may exist elsewhere in the body--including the heart...
...music is the word that comes before video. But what about musicals? That word is obsolete. And movie musicals? As if! A Chorus Line, the last film based on a Broadway tune show, came out (and flopped) more than a decade ago. As for original movie musicals, they exist almost exclusively in the cartoon form perfected by Disney. Aladdin and The Lion King did blockbuster biz and sold quillions of CDS. Still, Hollywood refused to sing along...
...know for sure now, and we may never know, whether microscopic organisms existed on Mars billions of years ago [SPACE, Aug. 19]. I for one don't give a damn. What we do know is that billions of creatures, both human and animal, exist here on Earth, and millions, if not billions, suffer needlessly from the effects of starvation, disease, pollution, war and other disasters. I wince with shame to think of the money that has been poured into the black hole of space exploration instead of being used to benefit the lives right here on this planet that...
While scientists should continue their search for absolute proof, the preliminary evidence of past life on Mars could hardly have come as a surprise to most people. It would be infinitely more surprising to me if scientists were somehow to prove that extraterrestrial life does not exist. For us on Earth to be alone in the galaxy would indeed be stunning. If other life does exist, what we might find is something else: not in the context of little green men or bug-eyed monsters, but in the perspective of where we are now in our development...