Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people working on this campaign," he insists modestly. "I am just one of them." It is true that Rove is one of three fiercely loyal top aides, dubbed "the Iron Triangle," who have all been with Bush since his first campaign for Governor and who form the impenetrable nucleus of the presidential operation. And it is also true that Joe Allbaugh holds the title of campaign manager and that Karen Hughes, the communications director, is closer to Bush personally. But Rove is the intellectual and strategic heart of the campaign, the one adviser to Bush who, insiders say, is indispensable...
...anamensis did indeed walk upright, some 500,000 years before the next oldest two-legged hominid known. But these creatures didn't walk in the modern sense. As Leakey explains, "They weren't nearly as efficiently upright as we are, and they had relatively short legs. They had a form of locomotion that we don't know today because there isn't anything equivalent...
...Orleans the wall of privacy came tumbling down. Asked by the Dallas Morning News ? they win the trip-the-candidate prize ? about whether Bush would require that his appointees answer the drug-use question for FBI background checks, George W. bit. "As I understand it, the current form asks the question, ?Did somebody use drugs within the last seven years?? and I will be glad to answer that question, and the answer is no." Thursday morning in Virginia, back the goalposts went again. "Not only could I have passed in today's White House, I could have passed the standards...
...very young kids smarter and more talented is based on gross exaggerations of brain science. So, he says, is the notion, suggested by some advocacy groups, that brain development all but shuts down after age three. Too much focus on this so-called critical period, he claims, in the form of programs like Head Start, may thus be misguided...
...effectiveness comes from Europe. Researchers in Italy documented its apparent anti-depressant qualities in several small studies in the 1970s. (A couple of more recent U.S. studies found similar results.) Doctors in Germany think it may reverse some of the damage caused by osteoarthritis, the wear-and-tear form of arthritis...