Word: findings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classroom, my neighbor claimed that he could really get this country going by dispersing the seeds of "j-ism" to the population. That pretty much ended any intellectual discourse about "-isms" for the next three years. Maybe when I'm mature enough to not laugh at that, I'll find an "-ism" really worth pursuing. Only my "-ism" wouldn't be a hoax. It wouldn't involve hate. I wouldn't even need for anyone else to believe in it. It would just be something that I could finally be passionate about...
...spirits and conversation. I think I know someone in the Signet, or maybe I know someone who knows someone in the Signet, or maybe it's their former roommate? In any event, I'm feeling literary and want to get the night started off right. I just walk up, find the door slightly ajar as a Signet member exits and make my entrance. The majority of people gather in the salon, a large room towards the back of the house. White wine flows freely into glasses (no plastic cups are to be found). As the mysterious stares multiply, I fortunately...
McLennan himself entered college in the late 1960s as an atheist. It was Chaplain Coffin who helped him find religion, Unitarian Universalism...
...Thompson, "and most of the tests to date have failed." Still, companies that do hit on the right combination are spinning so much genetic straw into pure gold, and they don't want their competitors learning Rumplestiltskin's secrets on their dime. For the NIH, the task is to find a way to keep the public safe without giving away the company store...
Lesson 1: The masks work. You find out how well when you lift it up for the few seconds it takes to blurt your name, rank and Social Security number, and choke on the whiff you get when you do. Clear your mask - a puff out through the one-way mouth hole - and you're back in the pink, congratulating yourself on your fortitude and staring quizzically at the masked-and-gloved drill sergeants burning the CS sticks, wondering if the drama of this boot camp ordeal, like so many others, had been oversold...