Word: pendulums
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pendulum swung back to Harvard's end of theice, and it was Don Chase who capitalized on thepersistent Eagle forecheck, taking a feed from RobLaFerriere and beating Israel high frompoint-blank range with only 4:32 remaining...
Maybe what we see is also just a swing of the pendulum -- the man's turn to be "it." Or maybe the theme of garbage that has become American society's cultural motif has finally caught up with men and engulfed what they used to think of as their dignity. In a country where childhood and children go into Dumpsters, where women's bodies (and men's and children's too) are treated like garbage in the $8 billion-a-year pornography industry, and where popular culture itself, sluicing through the ever efficient, stainless-steel First Amendment, is a Mississippi...
...people believe Italy is headed for anything but a prolonged period of instability. Since the center did not hold, political scientist Giovanni Sartori figures the next Parliament will prove that the country has become "absolutely ungovernable." Italians can expect more wild swings before the political pendulum finally settles back in the center...
Research on aids is like a relentless pendulum that swings between great expectations and great disappointment. Every time there's a hint of a breakthrough in the so far futile quest for a cure, the press blares it to the world, raising the hopes of AIDS sufferers. Almost every time, however, the initial excitement gives way to doubts, criticism, caveats and, eventually, renewed despair. And when rival scientists, competing to boost their reputations, as well as help humanity, disagree about the validity of a "breakthrough," no one knows whom or what to believe...
...AIDS pendulum took another big swing last week, thanks to a claim by biologist Ara Hovanessian of France's Pasteur Institute that his research team had made a major advance in understanding how the AIDS virus infects a healthy cell. The news created an instant stir, since the prestigious Paris-based institute is where HIV was first identified. Even before Hovanessian had a chance to present his findings to a Pasteur-sponsored conference and before other scientists were able to evaluate the research, the press got wind of the story and ran with it. Countless TV and newspaper accounts, including...