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...Alfred Kinsey published his report on Americans' previously concealed sex lives. The Nobel Prize in Medicine went to the Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Muller, for his work in developing the "miracle" compound DDT. Fourteen years later, during the Kennedy Administration, the New Yorker would begin serializing Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. George Orwell transposed two numbers...
...Fourteen student organizations have endorsed the Senior Gift Plus campaign, according to seniorgiftplus.com, including the Harvard College Democrats, and the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA...
...Fourteen thousand astronomical targets. Groundbreaking observations of Shoemaker-Levy 9’s 1994 collision with Jupiter. Pictures of the closest supernova in four centuries. Star luminosity measurements suggesting that cosmic expansion is accelerating. Deep field images showing uncountable galaxies in every direction. Stellar photos that found their way into everything from coffee table books to children’s television shows. The Hubble Space Telescope is responsible for all of these and much, much more...
...family, themselves archetypal characters. Robert is an overworked executive who has lost touch with his family. His wife, Marie (Anne Archer), works at a department store where she talks to friends about her loneliness and wishes that Robert would bring home the salami once in a while. Fourteen-year-old Bobby (Trevor Morgan) divides his time between neighborhood vandalism and playing with his buddies in a garage band, while his little sister Nina (Gina Mantegna) constantly whines about wanting a puppy—Uncle Nino, making an effort to appease her, offers her some salami...
...can’t say it was their defense that did it,” said Cusworth about his team’s sloppy play, “because we had 22 turnovers to their eight steals. Fourteen of those turnovers were unforced...