Word: fainting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, if even the more casual socials set graduate students to worrying, some of the more traditional departments really scare the faint of heart...
Five men kneel motionless in the windowless cell as they await inspection by the guards. Only a faint light glows from the single electric bulb hanging in the corridor. Thin rubber mattresses with small gray blankets cover the 10-ft. by 13-ft. concrete floor, and the air reeks of sweat. There are no personal effects, no furniture, only a small jar of water and a big plastic can that alternates as a toilet and a washbasin...
...heart of its optics had been incorrectly manufactured served mainly to focus attention on the limits of high technology. The immediate result is that for all Hubble's tremendous cost, two of its most heralded advantages -- the ability to distinguish very close objects and the knack for detecting faint light from the early universe -- are lost. Said John Logsdon, director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University: "It's horrible...
...come to rest squarely on Mandela's shoulders. He embarked on his journey only a week after removal of a cyst from his bladder, and in recent years he has also had tuberculosis and prostate surgery. There were reports -- promptly denied by A.N.C. spokesmen and Mandela -- that he felt faint last week in Geneva and had to cancel a meeting. Out of concern for his health, planners in the U.S. tried to schedule free time between large events so Mandela would be able to rest. But Mandela does not have to try to do everything on this trip. Demand...
...alternative to war. For the child soldier in Burma or Afghanistan, there are no Big Brothers or child psychologists laboring to keep them out of harm's way. American inner-city kids, like those of Belfast, do have alternatives to gang shootings and street riots. Those opportunities may seem faint, but society does provide American and Northern Irish children with a semblance of choice...