Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twenty-nine days I had been waiting for February to be over--and it finally was. But somehow, I wasn't feeling much better. I was fed up with Harvard, fed up with anality and fed up with the male-dominated economic superstructure that, according to all the anal Harvard students in my classes, dominated modern society...
...potent lung saver, warding off the depredations of cigarette smoke, car exhaust and other pollutants. "The effects of air pollution are chronic," says Dr. Daniel Menzel of the University of California at Irvine. "Over a lifetime people develop serious diseases like bronchitis and emphysema. We have fed animals in our labs vitamin E and have found that they have fewer lung lesions and that they live longer." Menzel suggests that priming children with doses of antioxidants could protect them against lung disease as adults, much the way fluoridated water protects them against tooth decay...
...help that they in effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...
...villainous stereotype may be an endangered species in Hollywood. African Americans have already made it quite clear that they are fed up with appearing in movies as muggers, pimps and other disreputable characters. Arab Americans say they are sick of being typecast as terrorists. And Native Americans have had it with being portrayed as brutish scalp-craving savages. Now gay activists are taking to the streets to decry the growing number of movies that, they say, are stereotyping them as psychopathic killers...
...explore what made the ancient society work. At a minimum, they have to understand the remarkable water-management system created by the Khmers. Beginning in the late 9th century a succession of Kings constructed enormous reservoirs, some as large as 20 sq. mi. These barays and a complex gravity-fed network of moats and canals provided an almost continuous supply of water so that three rice crops a year could be grown. That production enabled Khmer Kings to extend their empires and build temples to their own divinity. It is the destruction of that intricate water system that could drown...