Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Western medicine is that it does no harm; unlike drugs and surgery, acupuncture has virtually no side effects. For acupuncturists who have been saying this for years, it was recognition long overdue. "[The panel's report] is a great step toward breaking down the barriers," said Larenz Ng, a pioneer of acupuncture research and now a professor of neurology at George Washington School of Medicine...
Movies like Star Wars, the pioneer of effects-laden movies, engendered "The Making of..." specials in which audiences saw that the production of the special effects was sometimes as interesting, and requires as much ingenuity, as their placement in the actual movie. Now, it's simply: "Oh, they did that with computers." We are by now so numbed to realistic-looking explosions and sci-fi stuff in movies that we take their existence for granted...
...thought that this was something I needed to partake in, because first of all, it's a pioneer event in history...and second of all, I just felt like anything that involved black female unity or a group of women getting together to talk about our empowerment was important for me to be a part...
...member of both the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Shapiro has served as a member of the Radio Science teams for the Mariner, Viking and Pioneer Venus spacecraft missions...
Throughout her political career in Cambridge, Wolf has been a pioneer in several child-related issues, notably by creating the "Kids Council," a program aimed at making city services and facilities respond better to the needs of children and families...