Word: germane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rome is much bigger, with a budget of $86 million. But her ideas are consistent. The building is a journey. Hadid used the barracks on which the art center is to be built as a footprint and imposed a "second skin" over the site. And in the just opened German garden center, she let pre-existing garden paths suggest the flow of the building...
...over Kosovo, one weapon is being used by both sides: Adolf Hitler. Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic accuses the West of acting like Hitler and appeals to his people's proud memories of the Partisan war against Nazi forces. And isn't the German Luftwaffe engaged in the NATO bombing? Meanwhile, in justifying that bombing, U.S. President Bill Clinton says, "What if someone had listened to Winston Churchill and stood up to Adolf Hitler earlier? How many people's lives might have been saved? And how many American lives might have been saved...
...Plainly, your credibility is dented if people you said were dead show up alive three days later," says TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Clearly there have been a lot of false reports in the confusion of the first week's bombing." For example, KLA sources told German TV on Tuesday that Pristina's football stadium had been turned into a concentration camp holding 100,000 people. "Then a group of journalists went there and found that the stadium was not full of people, either dead or alive," says Thompson. But this is war, and the truth seldom makes it through...
...British mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing helps build an electronic computer, the Colossus, that will be used by the Allies to crack German codes...
...German meteorologist Alfred Wegener proposes the theory of continental drift...