Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chaos if students were allowed an endless array of such opt-out privileges. Culturally offended by Chinese language instruction? Philosophically opposed to scientific research on animals? Concerned about Harvard's financial investments in oil companies? Demand a refund of whatever insignificant portion of your fees support these endeavors! At modern universities like Harvard with their hands in every educational pot--what former U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr referred to as the "multiversity"--opt-out schemes become terribly infeasible...
...revving up for a real campaign," says Squier, noting that Bush, for all his appeal, has been "unwilling to leave home. He is not strengthening himself for what is going to be a very rough-and-tumble campaign." Maybe. But while no one will ever make it through a modern presidential campaign without battle scars, it would help Gore if so many of his weren't self-inflicted...
...they'll be going after more targets, many of them mobile. That will require more planes. Last week most allied planes did their bombing from about 25,000 ft. And much of the opposition was easy to handle: on five occasions, NATO planes downed Yugoslav MiG-29s. "These were modern dogfights, with the planes a couple of miles apart and moving at high speeds," says a U.S. Air Force officer...
...life began is a grander question that will occupy most of the next century. The first task is to reconstruct the history of evolution over the past 4 billion years. Modern gene technology can use the DNA in every living thing as a vast repository of historical information. Even dna will not point all the way back to the beginning of life, but it will provide clues to the self-replicating entities first assembled from simple chemicals on the primeval earth. The century ahead will see the first laboratory proof that self-replicating systems can form from ordinary chemicals. Determining...
...German bacteriologist Paul Ehrlich uses a form of arsenic to combat syphilis; his work forms the basis of modern chemotherapy...