Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...school at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1961, and eventually rose through the ranks of Colorado politics. As a state legislator in the 1960s, he pushed through one of the earliest pre-Roe v. Wade laws that permitted abortion in certain circumstances, which later became a national model. In the early 1970s, he caught the swells of an awakening environmental movement and kept the 1976 Winter Olympics out of Colorado. In 1974, in his successful bid for the governorship, he walked across the state, becoming one of the first politicians to adopt that strategy, and gave substance to grass...
...Fergie and made gloriously juvenile faces at little girls who were presenting flowers to his grandmother. By the time he was eight or so, he had calmed down and was generally more reflective than Harry. He also showed precocious self-possession. With his ancient great-grandmother he is a model little gentleman, helping to guide her down church steps and holding the umbrella over her head...
This is how it starts. A girl grows up in Southern California. Really grows up. By the seventh grade she is 6 ft. tall. By the eighth grade she is 6 ft. 2 in. A friend asks her to play basketball for the school. She has no female role models for this, so James Worthy, the Los Angeles Laker star, becomes her role model. "I loved James," she says, "because he was the player other players would go to when they needed a basket." Senior year in high school she scores 101 points in one game. In a single half...
...situation has improved. Most animal research must be approved by special boards so that animals do not needlessly suffer. The number of animals used is decreasing with the advent of computer modeling and cell culture. Research is being trimmed so that it is both more humane and more relevant. Still, we cannot completely eliminate animal research. No matter how much we try to model the human body on a computer, there are intricacies we do not understand to be able to model them. While airplane structures can be modeled, drugs must still be tested on living things first...
Andros Mark VI-A $70,000 (basic model) This hazardous-duty robot can climb stairs at a 45 [degree] angle and make 180 [degree] turns. It can carry two TV monitors and open fire on targets with a mounted shotgun. Its 17-in.-to-19-in. width allows it to get into tight spots...