Word: millennium
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...successive conquerors have found there an unshakable primal attachment, however different their rites and rituals. But instead of living up to their sacred ideals, the religious conquerors always fell into warfare for sole possession of the place, a battle that goes on unabated as the city enters its fifth millennium...
Traditionally, cultures become more fascinated with the past as a millennium approaches, so this rush to scrap baseball history in favor of creature comforts is all the more disturbing. We can't get enough news about tombs discovered in Egypt and terra-cotta warriors unearthed in China, yet the good people of Boston now see the Green Monster in Fenway not as the Great Wall it is, but as some big slab of Sheetrock that can be transferred to a new site with better access, easier parking, more seats, and, oh yes, more corporate suites...
...Bringing together the technology and expertise and understanding of all [experts] is important to answer complex problems," said Dr. Robert I. Tepper, vice president of biology at Millennium Pharmaceuticals...
...hard part [for Millennium researchers] is finding patient populations particularly with complex genomic causes where more than one region is affected," said Tepper, who graduated from Harvard Medical School. "Through mathematic algorithms, clinical phenotyping and associations to the genome, we can dissect complex linkages that have given confusing results in the past...
...hundreds of years, most Christians would have found the idea of distinguishing between the Jesus one prays to and the Jesus of history a ludicrous one. Well into our half of the millennium, it was assumed (as it still is in America's expanding Fundamentalist and Evangelical congregations) that the Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles and Paul's Epistles were the best history of all: a Christian would no more consider asking whether Jesus had raised Lazarus from the dead than question his status as the risen Messiah. But Martin Luther, in pioneering Protestantism, stressed that every Christian could...