Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT WAS THE VULGARITY. NOW ALL THEY TALK ABOUT IS THE SOCIAL COMMENTARY. T.P. We created a brand for ourselves, so that now people can't get mad at what we do, because then they're just making fun of themselves. We had an animated Muhammad five years ago. But people say, "Oh, yeah, that's just South Park...
...National Academy of Sciences by Harvard-affiliated researchers. Prior to the study, which was conducted in the laboratory of MIT Professor Susan L. Lindquist at the Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, investigations had focused on the importance of the abnormal folding of certain prions, often associated with “mad cow” disease. This abnormal structure results in the inability of the proteins to be broken down by enzymes, and subsequently in the accumulation of the protein in the brain—which leads to disease. However, according to Lindquist, once scientists identify the characteristics of healthy...
...that most people don't want to reference. No one wants to say, 'You know I was yelling at this Chinese guy in the store the other day ... ' or 'This person called me a name.' But you can say, 'You know that scene in Crash where that woman got mad about the Latino locksmith? What do you think was going on with that?'" That incendiary ambivalence is what makes Crash enthralling to some, infuriating to many. Anyway, it sold tickets, $53 million worth (roughly eight times its cost) and kept people talking and thinking. The Academy's L.A. voters...
...University geology professor and Sunni politician, kept their guns close and loaded. "I have to be ready for anything," he says. For him, the decapitation of the mosque in Samarra was an omen of doom. "I said to myself, 'This is it. The Shi'ites are going to go mad. This is the start of the civil...
...basically throwing in the towel when maybe he shouldn’t.” Artz said that Summers’ initiative to encourage more undergraduates to study abroad was one of the highlights of his tenure, adding that “maybe the reason people are mad with him is because [Summers is] actually accomplishing things...