Word: hungering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton has fed an almost palpable voter hunger for a new face and a new voice speaking neither liberal nor conservative orthodoxy. But that hunger can ( be dangerous. Suppose Clinton does sew up the nomination by mid-March and the Republicans discover a Willie Horton or Donna Rice in his background? They might choose to withhold the information until Clinton delivers his acceptance speech at the Democratic convention in July, when springing it would be most damaging. The grind of press conferences, debates, primaries, caucuses has often been vilified in the past as no test of anything about a candidate...
...obvious place to look for gender differences is in the hypothalamus, a lusty little organ perched over the brain stem that, when sufficiently provoked, consumes a person with rage, thirst, hunger or desire. In animals, a region at the front of the organ controls sexual function and is somewhat larger in males than in females. But its size need not remain constant. Studies of tropical fish by Stanford University neurobiologist Russell Fernald reveal that certain cells in this tiny region of the brain swell markedly in an individual male whenever he comes to dominate a school. Unfortunately for the piscine...
...elegance. But beneath the sparkling exterior, the mood of the city's 5 million inhabitants is as frigid as the ice piled up in the Neva River. Slowly, less dramatically than during the 900-day siege by the German Wehrmacht in World War II, St. Petersburg is experiencing real hunger...
...Hunger and Fear in St. Petersburg...
...several so-called patriotic groups. His view is totally false: though some leaders of the Bolshevik Revolution were Jewish, Joseph Stalin and his successors practiced anti-Semitism almost as zealously as the czars. No matter: many Russians are looking for someone to blame for the shortages and hunger that have followed the collapse of communism, and some are finding that all-purpose, historic scapegoat, the Jew. Others focus on the Central Asians and residents of the Caucasus area who sell many of the scarce meats and vegetables that turn up in Moscow farm markets, sometimes at exorbitant prices...