Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maori master carvers did not always create objects of massive size or religious significance. They could show a unique touch with such humble household necessities as the fishhook. The curve of the shank was obtained by training a branch of a living tree. When the hook was to be used by a man of high rank, it was topped with a dainty head. The deadliest of the Maori weapons, the sharp-sided club used in hand-to-hand fighting, is of similarly graceful design. Both categories of artwork bear an eerie resemblance to the 3000 B.C. figurines from the Cycladic...
Some politicians in Bonn were not so ready to let the government off the hook. Former Chancellor Willy Brandt, chairman of the opposition Social Democratic Party and architect of Bonn's Ostpolitik in the late 1960s, denounced the "garrulous dilettantism" of Kohl's coalition. Christian Democratic Coalition Parliamentary Leader Alfred Dregger was singled out for blame. He had angered the East Germans by bluntly stating in an interview with the conservative daily Die Welt that "our future does not depend upon whether Herr Honecker pays us the honor of his visit." The East German Communist Party daily Neues...
...child to resemble its legal parents. From there it is only a short step before some parents try to choose blonds instead of brunets, or boys instead of girls. A German clinic in Essen claims that its sperm donors include "no fat men, no long ears, no hook noses . . ." "We can talk in impressive pseudoscientific terms about how we want to help society," says the Rev. Roger Shinn, professor of social ethics at New York's Union Theological Seminary, "but as long as genetic manipulation is the motive, what we would be doing is what Hitler intended...
Next it was the Soviet-bloc women who put on a show. The Friendship winners were swifter than the Olympic gold medalists in every distance event in track: the 800, 1,500 and 3,000 meters. East Germany's Marita Koch bettered Valerie Brisco-Hook's time in the 400 meters by .67 of a second. Yet it was the water that seemed to be their element. At Moscow's Olympic pool, the crowd bellowed its approval as four East German women set a world record in the 400-meter freestyle relay. In the women...
...more and more personal computers have gone into offices, companies have been looking for a way to hook them together so they can share information or use centralized equipment like printers or storage devices. The new IBM office network makes it possible for as many as 72 desktop computers to work together. The system, though, is relatively slow, so more time will be required to perform tasks when many people are using the network at once. IBM promises that a more advanced system will be out in two years...