Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Crimson netminder Chris Miller played the entire game and preserved the Harvard victory with 17 saves. While the inexperienced Post attack did not have a lot of strong shooters, the Pioneer offense had some success on the fast break and found several men open in the crease...
...such mind-body techniques as meditation, yoga, group therapy, guided imagery (visualizing the desired effect) and relaxation. "There is little question that we can alter the course of disease by manipulating psychological factors," contends Dr. Robert Ader, a professor at the University of Rochester medical school and a pioneer in mind-body research. "But to make this knowledge useful to physicians, we need to understand the mechanisms." Dr. N. Herbert Spector, a neurophysiologist at the National Institutes of Health, is convinced that when researchers can pin down the appropriate clinical uses for mind-body therapies, the result will...
Oral Roberts is chastised as the TV pioneer whose promises of blessings, blended with fund raising, laid the groundwork for the authors' major target, the so-called word of faith movement (a.k.a. the "prosperity gospel"). This is a get-rich-quick brand of Christianity that holds that God is bound to give believers whatever they "claim" through faith...
...practical rather than it's possible." Others are skeptical that optics can compete with electronic computers. Says Bernard Soffer, senior scientist at Hughes Aircraft Research: "Optical computers would have to be ten to 100 times better than electronic ones to justify retooling." Even enthusiasts are guarded. Says optical-computing pioneer Joseph Goodman, a Stanford electrical- engineerin g professor who was once Huang's teacher: "The first commercial general-purpose optical computer will appear between the year 2000 and infinity, and it may be closer to infinity...
Multilingual and multifaceted, Blades has a knack for being different things to different people. In his native Panama, he is a respected lawyer and national celebrity, a man of the people and potential presidential contender. To fans of Caribbean salsa, he is a musical pioneer and a charismatic leader of the Nueva Cancion (New Song) movement, a steamy mix of poetry, politics and tropical rhythms that has left an imprint on Latin music. In the U.S., he is an up-and-coming actor who has worked with Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg and Robert Redford in such films as Fatal Beauty...