Word: gardened
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Friday, author of the best sellers My Secret Garden and My Mother/My Self, has produced a thorough exploration of the meaning of beauty. This is no "guide for girls," but rather a full-out search party seeking to understand how we arrived at a place where "whether we are 5 or 55 the number one predictor of self-esteem is self perception of our physical appearance." In pursuit of her answer, Friday ricochets among personal, sociological and psychological investigation. Ultimately, however, her goal is not so much to undermine the current ruling troika of "looks/beauty/appearance" as to confront the obsession...
...from the relatively familiar world of viruses and bacteria. Instead, it hails from the strange realm of protozoa--single-celled organisms that have complex, multistep life cycles and are big enough to be seen under an ordinary microscope. Protozoa are usually found in ponds and moist, humid places like garden soil. There are many different types of protozoa, but this particular strain was not identified until the early 1990s...
CHRISTOPHER S. BOND (R., Mo.) --$229 metal garden wagon from the Missouri Republican Party...
...noisiest and most disorderly stop along my route is the neighborhood near North Station, where the Boston of yesterday and the Boston of tomorrow converge to produce the ugly mess that is the North Boston of today. Here lie the remains of the venerable home of Boston sports, the Garden. Alongside is its newly-erected replacement, the FleetCenter, which casts a domineering shadow over the continuous stream of cars and trucks on Causeway Street below...
Pham, who is 49 and now lives in Garden Grove, California, was one of about 450 South Vietnamese commandos who were part of an operation called Oplan-34A, which the CIA and Pentagon ran between 1961 and 1968. Two hundred of the commandos who are now living in the U.S. have filed a suit asking that all commandos still alive be paid $2,000 for every year they served in prison--an estimated total of $11 million. Two weeks ago, the case broke open when a federal claims court forced the CIA and the Pentagon to declassify secret payroll rosters...