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...ambition is shaped by the material world of the 1980s. How could it be otherwise? The twenty-year-old himself declares that "my memories begin with Ronald Reagan." But his optimistic dreams of success don't match the grim reality of a great idea gone sour. The Plants, the nuclear weapons facilities that made his hometown boom with prosperity, are now all but shut down, spreading a virus of unemployment and decay...
Killing and disposing of the animals-researchers call it "sacrificing"--is a grim task. Consider Harvard's "Faculty of arts and Sciences Guidelines for Animal Experimentation Regarding Euthanasia Procedures...
...been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The third and current wave of gay response to AIDS is once again dominated by fear, this time based on a sense of grim inevitability. The medical news is not good. The civil rights struggle is taking far longer than most people thought. The gay leaders during the first decade of the plague are almost all gone now, either dead or dying or emotionally depleted by the struggle. Some organizations just a few years...
...resurgence of American women is not precisely a triumph of carefree amateurism over the grim professionalism of the hulking East Germans. While the U.S. athletes are from a land of backyard swimming pools and neighborly recreation rather than national regimens, they too are obsessive athletes. Several were immersed in the sport while still in diapers by eager relatives. Evans, not atypically, swam her first competitive race at age 5. As a child, Janie Wagstaff had to be counseled not to reach into the next lane and grab an opponent's foot. Even now, she admits, "when I'm swimming against...
...grim environment," De Gennaro said."The whole division has been neglected for thelast 20 years...