Word: insights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this possible? Because, say the professionals, deciphering glyphs depends as much on intuition and instinct as it does on knowledge of a given writing system. Insight can strike like lightning. Says Schele, now an art historian at the University of Texas at Austin: "These moments of clarity are just extraordinary. The greatest thrills of my career came in those moments when the inscription becomes clear and we suddenly understand the humans who created this legacy for the first time...
...work has offered new insight into different elements of modern developmental biology. In an October 1991 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nusslein-Volhard wrote that she and other researchers at the institute discovered many of the genes in the fruit fly embryos that affect the ultimate form...
...example of the council, which conducts most of its business in open, public sessions, may provide an insight into how other campus groups function...
Scientists are optimistic that the telescope will provide insight into supernovae and the chemical composition of stars. "AXAF will be very powerful," says Tananbaum. "I think it looks very good...
...novel Orlando, inspired by Woolf's love for Vita Sackville-West, is a gay lark disguised as a historical biography. Centuries and genders fly past, each one bending like a willow to accommodate Woolf's puckish feminist insight and hindsight. Potter's movie, faithful in spirit to the book, is something else. It is, in the best sense, a travesty, a masquerade, a cross-dressing comedy of eros. Yet moviegoers do believe in Orlando, in the breadth of its canvas, the immediacy of its emotions, the palliative power of its wit. They can swim in its gorgeous images: the fruit...