Word: modernizations
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...successful, the fossil trove is already providing fresh insights about the evolution of life on earth. Says Shubin: "The find is like a Rosetta stone. This period was one of tremendous geological upheaval. The continents were beginning to split apart, and there was a turnover among the animals. The modern world was basically set during this time...
Doing the laundry is not as simple as it used to be. Many modern washers and dryers have enough time, temperature and fabric settings to confuse a test pilot. The buttons and dials can be especially daunting for people with poor vision, including many of the elderly, and Spanish-speaking Americans, some of whom cannot read English. Now Whirlpool, noting that the U.S. population includes some 28 million people over the age of 65 and about 18 million Hispanics, has become the first major U.S. appliance manufacturer to introduce a line of washers and dryers designed for those large groups...
ACTUALLY, THERE IS one other possibility for this Holocaust garbage: the makers of the Delta Force included the symbolism to make the first half of the movie as bogus as possible. If this was the goal, they succeeded. It was certainly the most over-acted piece of modern film I have ever seen...
...idolatrous culture, worshipping symbols and images: the space shuttle, NASA, Martin Luther King Day, and sexless adolescents. The New Rhetoric is an exercise in idolatry--no the old biblical kind, but the modern version--the version that sometimes leaves people broken behind the scenes...
...even with such great variety not all student needs are or can be accomodated. If we skim through the course catalog we will not find much on, for example, modern history of the countries of the European periphery, such as Italy, Greece, or the Scandinavian countries. Moreover, the development of new fields within the discipline over the past three decades, notably social history and the history of women, has made complete coverage a Promethean task. Offerings from visiting professors are an insufficient solution. There is a point, then, in trying to be diverse, but diversity does not benefit students...