Word: path
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Origin of Species, turns 150 on Nov. 24. There will be documentaries, lectures, conferences and museum exhibits. Darwin-themed blogs are being launched, and a cartload of Darwin-related books are being published. A replica of H.M.S. Beagle, the ship that carried Darwin around the world, will retrace his path. This January, Stanford University let a group of 90 people do likewise - albeit more comfortably, on a private Boeing...
...Avenue, passing streets still populated by more police than civilians and eventually reaching the intersection at 7th Street. The time was 6:35 am. The gate for purple ticket-holders was at Constitution Avenue and 1st Street—just six blocks away. But national guard troops blocked the path, and none could suggest any way to bypass the inaugural parade route they guarded and reach the gate.Leaving the gate, I joined forces with Josh and Amy—a staffer for Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) and his behavioral science funding lobbyist wife—in search...
...making pretty pictures,” Fairey says. Instead of focusing on aesthetics alone, his work stems from a desire to make people think harder about the authority figures to which they submit and the systems in which they operate. “People tend to follow the path of least resistance,” Fairey says. “‘Obey’ is offensive to their sense of independence. It makes them question...
...Knesset. But Netanyahu had been expecting a big victory; his support had plummeted in the last days. Finally, there was Tzipi Livni, whose moderate Kadima party won one more seat than Likud ... but didn't really win either, because Netanyahu was right: he would probably have an easier path to building a parliamentary majority than Livni would...
...Collins and Snowe have broken ranks with their party. They have often found themselves at odds with the GOP leadership on taxes, budgets, the environment and social issues. They have both voted for stem-cell research, against a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, for giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship and against a ban on partial-birth abortion. They also both voted to acquit Bill Clinton after he was impeached...