Word: pioneeringly
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Others attribute Star Trek's popularity less to its science than to its dramatic and mythic qualities. Richard Slotkin, professor of English at Wesleyan University, says the show echoes the pioneer stories that dominate American history and literature. "What's so appealing about Star Trek is that it takes the old frontier myth and crosses it with a platoon movie," Slotkin says. "Instead of the whites against the Indians, you have a multiethnic crew against the Romulans and Klingons...
Before long, though, they may have a better way to make a baby. This week, Alan Trounson, an IVF pioneer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, will tell the American Fertility Society meeting in San Antonio, Texas, that he and his colleagues have devised an alternate approach that is much cheaper, simpler and easier on the mother. It removes the need for fertility drugs and daily monitoring. "There is nothing terribly complicated about ((the procedure))," Trounson claims, "so it will spread like a brush fire because the patients want...
...dishes are becoming a viable alternative for viewers unhappy with cable. "There's no denying that a significant number of people have had it with the TV they're getting right now," says Eddy Hartenstein, president of DirecTV, the satellite-programming unit of GM Hughes Electronics. Enthuses satellite-TV pioneer Stanley Hubbard: "Once consumer expectations change, they never go back. Digital satellite is changing consumer expectations forever...
...infidel." In telling their story, he realizes, he is tracing a particularly American trajectory. The people before him were secure in their faith and in their right to shape and lead a new nation. Then a lot of things happened -- all meticulously noted in this narrative -- beginning with pioneer hardships, moving through wars and economic booms and busts, and winding up in the pleasant suburban comforts of Frazier's own Ohio childhood. "I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed...
...When you're a progressive college like Bennington, and you're known for always being a pioneer, it's important to look and see if you're still pioneering," Diehl said...