Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...silver-haired chairman of the House committee where articles of impeachment originate. Or even Bob Livingston, who will soon replace Newt Gingrich as Speaker. Instead the author of Bill Clinton's most historic defeat, if it happens, will be Tom DeLay, a flinty former pest exterminator from Sugar Land, Texas, with a tense smile and a talent for making offers his fellow Republican lawmakers can't refuse...
...Mars Climate Orbiter. Arriving in September 1999, the spacecraft will enter an orbit of the planet that traces a path over the Martian poles, allowing it to study the local atmosphere. Its orbit will position it perfectly to act as a relay satellite for any later ship that may land on the surface. That's a good thing, since three weeks or so after the orbiter leaves Earth, NASA will launch another spacecraft, the more ambitious Mars Polar Lander...
...imperfections. He stammered. He oftentimes hated the very people he led. Almost as frequently, he was at odds with the God who sent him on his mission--and thus the God who worked wonders through him kept Moses from the wonder that was his life's longing, the Promised Land. And yet, for more than 3,000 years, there have been few lives more memorable. He was raised among the privileged princes of Egypt, only to throw in his lot with slaves. He would lead his oppressed people safely through a valley of watery death that had been cleft from...
...occult, and spoke 70 languages. More recent commentators and The Prince of Egypt have focused on questions of assimilation and dual identity. But Exodus cuts directly from the infancy story to Moses' fateful moment of outraged ethnic solidarity and justifiable homicide. Pursued by Pharaoh, Moses flees to the land of Midian. There he meets Zipporah, the daughter of the chieftain Jethro (also called Reuel and Hobab), as she draws water from a well. Soon he takes her as his wife, and they have two sons. Nahum Sarna, in his book Exploring Exodus, notes the story's similarities to an Egyptian...
...become a prince? In his book, Hoffmeier notes that the Egyptian court reared and educated foreign-born princes, who then bore the title "child of the nursery." He believes Moses was one of these privileged foreigners, some of whom went on to serve as high officials in their adopted land. In an intriguing study published in 1988, the German scholar Ernst Axel Knauf speculated that the Moses story could have been built around a Syrian named Bay, who had served as Egypt's chief treasurer and ascended the throne as Ramose-khayemnetjeru. Civil war ensued, leading not only...