Word: glue
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steers clear of boy-girl stuff in favor of far less charted lyrical waters. All the banging on sets of bells and strumming of ukeleles somehow add up to ingratiating, appealing music, neither clunky nor gimmicky, and neither "punk" nor slick. My favorite Wimp Factor song is "Role Model Glue," about a guy like me who can't bear to believe less than the best about his personal heroes: "Use too much role model glue/ To build up someone to look up to/ Not such a great idea." Here's a better idea: see Wimp Factor 14 at the Middle...
...criteria for judging the ads remains a mystery. Although they were divided up into those receiving the bronze, silver and gold lion awards and the grand prix, the distinction seemed to be arbitrary. The grand prix, an ad for some brand of glue, showed a nun refixing a penis onto a baby Jesus...
...finding which may eventually lead to ways to stimulate wound healing or fight tumor growth, a group of Harvard researchers has discovered the glue that sticks blood cells together to form young blood vessels...
...hundreds of miles each week back and forth across Mississippi and Alabama from one to another of three of the abortion clinics he owns. In a typical year he will perform nearly 7,000 abortions and will make about $200,000. Protesters jam his car's locks with Super Glue, dive under his tires, trail him across the South, phone in bomb threats and even distribute a wanted poster with his picture on it: notorious!! Working six days a week, his only real diversions are playing golf and spending each Tuesday night playing blackjack and craps at the Splash Casino...
...most important message, he says, is "not to cut down the rain forest." But others are not so sure. Says Stephen Houston, a hieroglyphics expert from Vanderbilt University: "I think we should be careful of finding too many lessons in the Maya. They were a different society, and the glue that held them together was different...