Word: jeremiah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lecture, entitled "The Hebrew Bible," dealtwith four of the authors of the Old Testament: J,Jeremiah, Job, and Jonah...
...ancient scold, with a new Jeremiah sounding the doom cry. Ben J. Wattenberg, a demographic analyst at the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, warns that the U.S. and other Western nations are not producing babies fast enough. Since 1957, writes Wattenberg in his new book The Birth Dearth (Pharos Books; $16.95), the average American woman's fertility rate has dropped from 3.77 children to 1.8 -- below the 2.1 size needed to maintain the present population level. Meanwhile, he argues, Communist-bloc nations are producing at a rate of 2.3 children per mother, while the Third World rate is rising...
...decay of radioactive elements within 1987A's cloud of debris is now generating the light. If he is right, gamma-ray emissions from decaying cobalt 56 should start showing up this summer. Concedes Woosley: "I'm out on a limb." A more radical theory, put forth by Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker, proposes that the neutron star that formed at 1987A's center when Sanduleak exploded has turned into an extremely rapidly rotating pulsar that is leaking energy and illuminating the surrounding debris...
Remarkably few neighbors share the sheriff's straightforward sentiment. Dallas, say his cheerleaders, is not a ruthless killer; rather, he's the last American hero, a vestige of the Old West, a virtual Jeremiah Johnson. In a land of thundering silence and splendid isolation, where a trapper can hike for days without stumbling across another's tracks, this version of the story has grown into a powerful myth. Sure, his fans admit, Dallas killed two men on that terrible day in 1981, but they were just game wardens, the lowly emissaries of flower-fondling environmentalists. Today, in what remains...
Duded-Up Fantasy American Cookery could have been the title of the book by Jeremiah Tower, the over-celebrated chef and co-owner of both the Santa Fe Bar and Grill in Berkeley and Stars in San Francisco. But with no false modesty, he chose to call it New American Classics (Harper & Row; $25). Translation: the bizarre California-style dishes Tower created for his trendy restaurants. There is a windy self-congratulatory text, a double-page spread reproducing the author's signature and some superfluous vista photographs a la Falcon Crest. Inevitably, there are many of the California cliches...