Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...There's never really a eureka moment on any of these projects," said Hurley, "but when I began to plot these samples, the correlation was astounding. They all fitted exactly." In addition to the identical ages of the regions, Hurley, his M.I.T. associates and their collaborators at the University of Sao Paulo found the boundary line between the 550-million-and 2-billion-year-old areas in northeast Brazil exactly where they had predicted it would...
...brown recluse bites only when it is disturbed and feels threatened. But if it is exploring bed clothes at night, that moment may come when a man simply rolls over in his sleep. Because the bite is inconspicuous and the spider scurries away, the cause is often unsuspected. At first the venom causes only a stinging sensation, without much pain. Two to eight hours later, the pain may become intense, accompanied by nausea, joint pains, severe abdominal cramps and fever. The wound blisters, is surrounded by a hemorrhage. An ulcer may develop, followed by gangrene. The venom appears to contain...
Sellers, the Melancholy Matador, sometimes gets a laugh. But after he loses the girl, he bumps gracelessly from parody into pathos. Sellers just doesn't belong to the Chaplin tradition. He's a fraudulent character like Groucho Marx, who brings a leer into every tearjerker moment. When the trickster look falls off Sellers' face, he's cooked...
...Explore ethical and philosophical issues: When does a person become a person? Does life begin at the moment of conception, when the heartbeat starts, or when he emerges from the womb...
...Clarify factual statements: At the moment there are no certain figures on the annual number of abortions in the country, and calculations vary from one abortion in every 5 births to one in every 20. (The conference will also take up the socio-economic aspect of abortion, which has been largely overlooked...