Word: factly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Supreme Court ruling and a National Academy of Sciences booklet that oppose giving Darwin and creationism equal weight in science classes. The Californians also omitted this: "There is no scientific dispute that evolution has occurred and continues to occur; this is why evolution is regarded as a scientific fact." But another section asserts, "It is a scientific fact that organisms have evolved through time." The board advises teachers not to suppress part of the curriculum "on the grounds that it may be contrary to an individual's beliefs" nor to demean people who reject evolution "on the basis of religious...
...play was a swell show; it had something for everyone. The main thing preventing it from being an equally swell movie is the fact that it is a movie. A film must offer us something a little more spectacular than half a dozen white chicks sitting around talking. Accordingly, Harling's adaptation hustles them out of the beauty shop and into the life of the town. Suddenly the people they talked about so amusingly behind their backs must be met face- to-face. The conflicts and confusions that sounded so hilarious in the recounting are spread out realistically. And reality...
California is looked at the way Italy used to be viewed in England. It's sexual and dangerous. Something could happen. A person could change. There is an element of hostility to Los Angeles that has a racist undertone. The fact that this is a Latin region, with its patios of bougainvillaea and its streets named for Spanish saints and psychotics. When you breathe the air, you become infiltrated with the idea that you are in another region entirely...
Throughout this period West Germany's allies paid facile allegiance to the goal of reunification, treating with abandon the fact that this simple dream involved some nightmarish complexities. It was an easy wish to proclaim, since it did not seem that the gods would ever grant it. Now, amid the widespread Western joy over last week's freedom dance at the Brandenburg Gate, comes a more sobering realization: the postwar division of both Germany and Europe seems to be tumbling toward the ash heap of history faster than preparations are being made for whatever new order might arise...
...back when Hungary's Communist rulers were just considering whether to allow independent parties and Poland's were still debating whether to talk with Solidarity, the challenge seemed to be to find ways to ease Eastern Europe from the claws that had clutched it for four decades. In fact, Moscow seemed all too eager to remove those claws. So eleven amazing months later, amid the euphoria over headlines and live telecasts that continue to amaze, comes an added and even trickier challenge: steering Europe toward a continent free of rivalries -- with an unthreatening Germany in the middle and a secure...