Word: popularization
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Catalan for "Merry Christmas." I had commissioned TIME's first piece on Adria back in 2000 and we'd become friends after being seated together at the gala dinner for the TIME 100 of 2004, of which Ferran was one. Since then, Ferran Adria has become an even more popular and influential global cultural figure. He has been hailed as an artist at Germany's prestigious Documenta arts festival in Kassel, and at Harvard he was rubbing elbows with some of the world's leading scientists. (On Wednesday, he signed an "understanding" with the University's Materials Research center...
...Born April 22, 1923, in Nashville, to a strictly Christian family, the future pin-up queen was more like a prom queen. Sunny and popular, Bettie May Page was a member of the high school debating team, appeared in theatricals and co-edited the literary magazine. Her grades (second highest average in the class) earned her salutatorian status on graduation day. She married Billy Neal, a good-looking football player from another school; she attended and graduated from George Peabody Teachers College, then headed for Hollywood, where in 1945 she landed a screen test at 20th Century...
...real movies from Sony and partner Paramount - and who knows who else. Sony could surely use the money; its PlayStation 3 division has lost nearly $3.8 billion over the past few years. The PlayStation 3 costs $400 and is getting thumped by Microsoft's Xbox, which is twice as popular, and Nintendo's adorable Wii, which has sold four times as many units for the month of October. So a lot is at stake here...
...this year’s show, “I Got Curriculum,” the news that the Harvard Medical School has dropped in rank below “some school in Baltimore” (i.e. Johns Hopkins) sends the faculty into a tizzy of reformation. Lyrics of popular songs are transformed into medical jargon, like in “Anatomist’s Got Back”: “When a girl walks in with an ischium-size waist / And a gluteus in your face / You get sprung, wanna pull off your glove...
...Rasmussen poll ranked Blagojevich the "least popular governor" in the nation. His approval rating among Illinois voters is around...