Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a study by the Centers for Disease Control concluded in the late 1980s that the link between Agent Orange and various cancers was too tenuous to prove, it looked as if the many years of highly charged debate over the notorious defoliant used in Vietnam were over. Only 1,000 of the 39,000 claims made would be paid out; the rest of the veterans would be left with nothing but bitter memories...
...years ago. Maya weavers embroider their wares with diamond motifs that are virtually identical to the cosmological patterns depicted on the lintels of ancient temples at Yaxchilan and other Maya sites. By marking their clothing with the symbols of their ancestors, the Maya artisans build a material link to pre-Columbian gods -- and the indelible spirit of their cultural past. "Depictions of everyday life do not occur in the weaving," notes Walter F. Morris Jr., a Seattle-based anthropologist and author of Living Maya. "It's always something supernatural, something dreamt, something you can only see in dreams...
...hopped into the back of a car being driven by Dodger outfielder Eric Davis and prepared to leave the stadium. As he did, Coleman--in a despicable, incomprehensible act of pure contempt and childishness-lit a firecracker he was carrying and tossed it over a chain-link fence into a crowd of Dodger fans...
...chance in court if they sued him for beach of his $4 million a year contract. And the outfielder was probably not laughing at the injuries he caused, because Coleman dashed away so fast that he hardly knew anything was wrong on the other side of the chain-link fence...
...overcome the couple's superficial differences. He doesn't know how to coax a performance out of Jackson, who relates to the camera lens as if it were a mirror. He never finds a way either to put an interesting spin on the incidents of the journey or to link them dynamically. And he doesn't know how to turn a graceful romantic line or how to put real snap into a comic one; his dialogue is mainly street epithets mumbled or run together incomprehensibly...