Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Resnick does not seem to understand that the cornerstones of the modern university, tenure for professors and financial aid for students, are crucial precisely because of how they counteract the imperatives of the market. Somehow, perhaps from the fact that Harvard often looks like a breeding ground for investment bankers, Resnick has concluded that Harvard is a "business" and that he is a "consumer." Nothing could be more wrong. In short, a university's purpose is to educate students, not to "serve consumers...
...tedious task of nitpicking seems oddly out of date in an age when modern medicine has made so many gains against maladies far more serious than lice. Why, 20 years ago, a bottle of Kwell, a hot dryer and a good cleaning did the job. But today's louse, a.k.a. Pediculus humanus capitis, which nests in 12 million new heads annually, is a hardier bug, having grown resistant to the prescription drugs lindane and Elimite and the over-the-counter permethrin drug Nix, which remain imperfect mainstays in the treatment of lice. "The pyrethrins [RID, Pronto and A-200 Pyrinate...
...notion of repairing disease-damaged brains with replacement cells is among the most talked-about--and the most audacious--ideas in modern neuroscience. Until now, however, that audacity has been limited to illnesses that attack narrowly circumscribed parts of the brain: the substantia nigra, for example, whose destruction causes Parkinson's disease...
...that the middle-aged Mikhail Baryshnikov has retrofitted himself as a modern dancer, what young hotshot is going to fill his ballet slippers? A.B.T.'s Ethan Stiefel debuted in the Baryshnikov role of Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove in New York City last week, giving a performance that had the stylistic curiosity, the eye-grabbing virtuosity--everything, in fact, but Misha's sly wit. There will never, ever be another Baryshnikov, but Stiefel, 26, is well on his way to becoming the great American male ballet dancer of his generation...
...still very mother-centered. It's still "mother, mother, mother," when it really has to be "mother, father, society." It's quite outrageous that the rich, powerful U.S. is one of the few modern industrial nations without a national child-care program. We are backward in that respect. Before, men had wives who took care of the details of life. And because of that, men became too divorced from the concrete dailiness of life. Now they are beginning to carry the baby in the backpack and share in the details of life...