Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When she revealed her age, it was well received. "I enjoyed the fact that I was the oldest woman on the WELL," Kamen says. "I found myself serving as a role model when someone came on saying they had just had their 40th birthday and were feeling over the hill. I could respond to that...
...Paigen, director of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the world's most famous mouse-breeding facility. Each year the lab ships out some 2 million mice from more than 1,700 stocks, including so-called designer mice with genes added or deleted so that they more closely "model" human disease. Among its customers is Folkman, whose lab relies on Jackson's best-selling C57BL/6J, or "Black 6" (cost: $8.15 to $10.85 apiece, depending...
American Tibetan-style Buddhists, however, will have to digest the occultism, interschool feuding and occasional violence that have long marked the culture they thought was their model. Donald S. Lopez Jr., a professor of Buddhist and Tibetan studies and author of an important new book, Prisoners of ShangriLa: Tibetan Buddhism and the West, says the fracas will help Americans realize they "have a bowdlerized version of Tibetan Buddhism." Editor Tworkov goes further. "This allows us as Westerners to ask, How do we bring this tradition into our society and our lives, and what is best left behind in Tibet...
Throughout my mothers valiant eight-month long battle with leukemia, I prayed faithfully that I would never be subjected to life without her. The possibility was much too painful to even imagine. My mother was my role model, my advisor and my best friend. I thought I wouldn't be able survive without...
Having no clue what Johnny said, we fall back on the old standard: "that's interesting, say more about that." Johnny replies, "which part, the part where I used Gramsci to explain the origins of the American Revolution, or the part where I employed a cliometric model of my own design to prove the Civil War had no impact on American society?" At this point, we usually show a movie...