Word: plaines
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Scopes is not quite what it seems either. The twist in the modern saga is the injection of creationism as the scientific alternative to evolution. So, let's be plain. Creationism, which presents Genesis as literally and historically true, is not science. It is faith crudely disguised as science...
...Oklahoma!, and the story of a smooth-talking drifter named Starbuck who comes to a drought-plagued Western community and promises to bring rain is full of corn-fed blather about the importance of dreams. "You don't believe in nothin'--not even yourself," Starbuck tells Lizzie, the plain farm woman whose brothers and father are desperately trying to marry her off. By the end of the play she'll have not one but two men pursuing her--and the stage will be drenched with water. Yep, a romance...
Charles Hensley and his colleagues at Gel Tech thought the solution was as plain as, well, the nose on your face. Why not skip the mouth and spritz the zinc directly into the old proboscis? They developed a gel that can do just that and tried it out on 104 volunteers. The results of this study, having been withdrawn once, will probably never be published in a scientific journal. Because Zicam is marketed as a homeopathic remedy, however, the Food and Drug Administration doesn't require it to undergo rigorous testing...
...series of recurring visions since sometime around the Iowa straw poll. Men who are wearing suits and carrying loose-leaf folders put me in a plain room with a large mirror that I somehow know is one-way glass. They tell me I'm a focus group, all by myself. They assure me that I'll be paid $50 for my cooperation and be provided with a box lunch, choice of chicken-salad sandwich or smoked-turkey-and-arugula wrap. I should be aware, they say, that my lunch choice, coordinated with my party registration and weighted...
...Rongji can prize open the economy and ensure its long-term growth despite the short-term pain. After 13 years of negotiations, the U.S. and China have finally agreed on a comprehensive set of rules to govern their increasingly interwoven economic relationship. But selling that deal won't be plain sailing for the politicians on either side of the Pacific...