Word: modern
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...thought by astrophysicists to be the faint afterglow of the Big Bang explosion, which started the universe, and they pose a riddle. The glow is uniform in all directions to within 1 part in 10,000, implying that the Big Bang was a perfectly uniform explosion. But the modern universe is filled with clusters of matter called galaxies, and there is no clear explanation of how a smooth explosion could produce a lumpy cosmos. COBE's sensitive microwave detectors will try to determine just how perfect the radiation's smoothness really...
...rises daily at 5 a.m. to pray and believes that as he works "I'm in the hands of a divine force." He is among multitudes who speak of creating through prayers, dreams and inspiration from the Bible. Africans know that this makes them oddities among the world's modern-day artists. Ben Nhlanhla Nsusha, who recently returned to Johannesburg after five years of study in London, says the young artists in England "can't understand the way I think. They never do religious subjects...
...Give me modern stuff, you're saying. Something about the late 1980s. Fine. Name the National League's last five Rookie of the Year winnners. (Give yourself a point for every correct player...
EVEN the most basic apsects of a healthy lifestyle have been drawn into a parasitical relationship with modern, quick-fix culture. Notions of good health are governed by a misdirected philosophy of immediate gratification and a hell-bent emphasis on current notions of good looks, while advertisers and the growing health industry invest millions in glamour and gloss to see that we never forget our waist lines...
...popular Electrical Muscular Stimulation devices. You go into some high tech chamber of fitness, lie down on a table and let some person in a white oufit slap rubber pads on vital muscular areas. Your muscles are then contracted by force of electrical impulses--no work, no sweat, only modern technology...