Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...argued that it was antithetical to the democratic traditions of the Jews to subjugate another people. Moreover, he took the unusual step, at least by Israeli standards, of addressing the Palestinians directly, talking to them as human beings. "We have been fated to live together on the same patch of land," he said. "We lead our lives with you, beside you and against you." He was also characteristically blunt about what each side could expect to achieve. "You will not get everything you want," he told them. "Neither will...
...able to detect some intriguing patterns. They compared the brains of two dozen "ordinary" men and women. For the most part, the brains appeared to be the same until the researchers examined a section of the hypothalamus called the BSTc. Although no one knows for sure what this tiny patch of neurons does in humans, earlier studies have indicated that, in rats at least, it plays a key role in regulating male sexual behavior. Half the men in the control group were heterosexual and half were homosexual. Yet, regardless of their sexual orientation, they all had a BSTc that...
...slacker when it came to details, she augmented an orange vinyl jacket, blue paisley butterfly collar shirt and brown bell-bottoms with a thick gold chain and a patch of black chest hair...
...bankers, professors, laborers, blacks, whites, literates and illiterates. Afterward they came up to the stage to tell me about childhoods far worse than mine, or some terrible family secret and how they were able to go on living and loving despite it. I learned that everyone has a dark patch in their history." And increasingly, it seems, everyone is eager to tell the world about...
...suggestion of a prototypical summerhouse by a few ramshackle piers and a wild strawberry patch would do Socrates proud. Such vivid, yet spartan footage gives the film its dreamlike quality. The very appearance of "Wild Strawberries" bestows a faintly abstract, contemplative air on the film. Thus, even the cinematography conveys a serene worldly wisdom...