Word: nei
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news media around the world, including TIME. (One notable exception: London's Daily Telegraph, which until January of this year still quaintly referred to Iran as "Persia"). Readers of newspapers and magazines were being forced to puzzle out such Sinological oddities as Guangzhou (Canton), Xizang (Tibet) and Nei Mong-gol (Inner Mongolia...
Which of these views is wrong? Nei ther, said Einstein. Measurements of time depend on the choice of the reference frame ? in this case, the train or the point along the tracks...
Unfortunately, De Chirico had nei ther the technical proficiency nor the mastery of drawing to reach his declared goal: a delayed place in the Renaissance tradition. His mythological scenes, in imitation of Titian, were leaden and vacuous; his nudes, meant to emulate Rubens, had the consistency of overboiled gnocchi; homage kept turning into parody. In the meantime De Chirico railed furiously at the modern movement; Braque and Matisse were "malodorous" and surrealism was a brainless obscenity...
...Marijuana is a restricted drug and any research using it has been difficult to clear in the past, but now that NEI is soliciting research, we shouldn't have any trouble getting it through," Dukes said, adding the NEI provides funds for the operation of the clinical center...
...have a hint--there is something in THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) which alleviates the pressure involved in glaucoma. The problem we must research now is how to use the drug to treat glaucoma without its psychological side effects," Dr. Douglas Gaasterland, a glaucoma specialist at NEI, said yesterday...