Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is it about New Hampshire, and how do you go about winning there? Let Dole explain it. "People pay attention to the first of anything," Dole said earlier this year. "They pay even more attention if you're seen as the front runner, so if you stumble in New Hampshire, you're dead. Other folks become 'hot.' It's as simple as that...
Timing may also explain the progression of fins to feet. In tetrapods (four-legged animals), feet do not grow straight out of the leg, proceeding from the ankle out, but develop in a fanlike progression that runs from the smallest digit to the largest. In Geneva, Duboule and his colleagues tracked the activity of four Hox genes in the budding feet of embryonic mice and found precisely this pattern. By contrast, studies showed that in the zebrafish, the Hox genes switch off earlier, perhaps to ensure that a flexible fin ray (useful for swimming) will form in the place...
...trying to explain budget overruns on Waterworld to Hollywood reporters weren't enough, Kevin Costner has found himself on the defensive with a group of people who once called him a friend. The director and star of 1990's Dances with Wolves, which treated Native American culture so respectfully, is suddenly persona non grata among Sioux activists in South Dakota. The rift is over Costner's efforts to acquire 630 acres of federal property in the Black Hills--land the Sioux consider sacred and claim was illegally seized in 1877 by the U.S. government...
...large classroom on Tuesday afternoon 32 students listened to headphones while their teacher eagerly tried to explain to them all the details of the American congressional lobby and special interest organizations...
Zorak's class is just one of the intense schedule of courses that will explain the American system of government through a series of guest lecturers and field trips...