Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government--and do not have enough political muscle to resist...
...Jianzhong, head of China's film bureau, and Shanghai Mayor Xu Kuangdi have each visited the U.S. and complained about Kundun. These kinds of culture clashes won't go away soon. "They don't have any idea what will happen once they become part of the world market," says Gere. "Russia learned how countries just can't pick and choose what they want to see--after MTV and cable TV come in, it all comes in. You can't hold back a flood...
...Leonardo's day, water was regarded as one of the four basic elements (along with earth, air and fire). He saw it as a major shaper of the earth, circulating in underground caverns and emerging as geysers and mountain springs, and infusing all of life--an idea he often incorporated in his art by painting curls of hair as if they were twirls of a whirlpool. In a premonition of the Gaia hypothesis, which compares the planet to a living organism, he writes poetically, "We may say that the earth has a spirit of growth, and that its flesh...
...possible that the prevalence of the anxiety-producing version of the gene is a result of natural selection. While hominids were evolving, a certain amount of fear and wariness was a good idea. Rather than being the norm, then, the people who are always cheery and who see the bright side and who say things like "keep your eye upon the doughnut and not upon the hole" are in fact carrying a maladaptive genetic flaw. So why haven't they died...
...cool. Asked by plaintiffs' attorney Daniel Petrocelli, who did the bulk of the interrogating, if he had an explanation for how the blood of his ex-wife and Goldman might have ended up in his Bronco, Simpson responded, as he had dozens of times already, that he had no idea. Dismissed juror Ann-Marie Jamison, though, did not buy his claims and told CNN, "It seemed a little unbelievable...