Word: hyped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beyond the hype and confusion, something very real is going on. These are exciting times in cancer research, perhaps the most exciting since Richard Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971. Angiogenesis inhibition, the tumor-starving process that Folkman pioneered, is indeed a promising line of research. Dozens of labs are racing to perfect it, some of them doing work that is more advanced than Folkman's. But it's not the only field with potential. Just as exciting, say many researchers, is the revolution in cancer treatments made possible by what they've learned about how genes and cancer...
...especially ones in which "cure" and "cancer" appear in the same sentence. "We were seeing a disturbing disconnect between the headlines and the actual science," says science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt, whose staff was already reporting a cover on cancer. "We thought we could separate the hope from the hype with some expert explaining...
...honesty, I have never felt much of a sense of community in Leverett House. Sure, I'll hype up the dining hall to play along with some silly rivalry every once in a while, but when you get down to it, I really couldn't care less about which dorm I was assigned to. In fact, I haven't really found "community" anywhere at Harvard. For me, a significant part of this "alienation" was a result of the fact that it was possible for me to wander about the Yard one balmy fall evening in the beginning of my first...
...heal injuries. In the 1950s such dancers as George Balanchine and Martha Graham became devotees. After a brief public boom in the 1970s, the system went back to the ballerinas. But in the past few years the exercise has begun to break through, in large part because of celebrity hype. "I always want to be doing what Madonna is doing," cracks author Jennifer Belle...
...problem is that harm is being done. What is lost in all the hype is that virtual reality is just that--virtual. Politicians and lawmakers see the Internet as a mainstream medium; an alternative to contemporary notions of commerce and education. But this is not, nor will it ever be, its function...