Word: onsets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Prozac or try psychotherapy. But 7.5 million Americans in the past year have instead gulped down an extract made from a bright yellow flower called St. John's wort--available without a prescription at the health-food store in the mall or at the local Wal-Mart. Fear the onset of cold and flu season? You could get a flu shot. Or, like 7.3 million Americans, you could swallow a capsule made from echinacea, a purple-petaled daisy native to the Midwest. Worried that your memory is fading? Then write down this name: ginkgo biloba. It's made from...
...hard not to notice the recent change in temperature, and while the necessary bundling up is a pain in the ass, the onset of cold does mean it's time for fun winter snow sports. Snow sports is what the 17th annual Boston Snow Sports Expo is all about. Go for a chance to see more than merchandise for sale--the show promises everything from video presentations to a half-pipe vert show and appearances by skiing and snowboarding celebs. 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Bayside Expo Center, 200 Mt. Vernon St, Boston...
...could a choir boy in the 17th century achieve fame and fortune? He could sing soprano--for life. Castration performed before the onset of puberty would produce a sound in a boy that blended the sweetness of a soprano with the bravado of a bass. Self-mutilation might have closed the door to one world, but it opened the door to another--entrance into the most elite singing coteries in Europe...
...noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
...some reason, being a native of Boston for the past 21 years makes me feel ordinary and even boring amidst my geographically diverse classmates who come from India, Turkey and Kalamazoo. However, the onset of fall each year transforms this shame into unabashed pride in my hometown. Boston in the fall is really the city at its best and also the ideal time to get to know it a little better...