Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writer Steve Kloves stocks "Flesh and Bone" full of haunting symbolism and foreboding action, seeking to tell a moralistic epic in small-county Texas; what results is sometimes nonsensical and contrived. He is much more successful at creating a broad clash in contrasting the panoramic vastness of the Texan horizon with the narrowness with which Arlis views his life's path...
...scientific debate about medical ethics since the birth of the first test-tube baby 15 years ago. A line had been crossed. A taboo broken. A Brave New World of cookie-cutter humans, baked and bred to order, seemed, if not just around the corner, then just over the horizon. Ethicists called up nightmare visions of baby farming, of clones cannibalized for spare parts. Policymakers pointed to the vacuum in U.S. bioethical leadership. Critics decried the commercialization of fertility technology, and protesters took to the streets, calling for an immediate ban on human-embryo cloning. Scientists steeled themselves against...
...investors pull out of foreign funds? Not entirely. John Markese, president of the American Association of Individual Investors, advocates keeping up to a third of a portfolio in foreign assets. Spread risk among regions; don't bet the ranch all at once, he counsels, and keep an investment horizon of at least five years. Some emerging markets -- particularly in Asia and South America -- are likely to outperform the U.S. and Europe. But creating the wealth of nations takes time. After all, as they say, Rome wasn't built...
...surf, and in downtown Los Angeles a steady "snow" of flake-size ash fell. Elsewhere the embers glowed red and started new blazes. In many areas, day became night as soot obscured the sun, while a permanent "sunset," the orange glow of not-so-distant flames, eerily lit the horizon...
Because when senior year drags itself into view (or junior year for the hyperambitious) The Future begins to loom on the horizon. And for all too many of us, the ticket to the future bears a three-digit number...