Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan says that the 1999-2000 Harvard men's basketball team will be a work in progress. The question is how long that progress will take...
...definitely the least-experienced team in the league," Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. "We've got to look at ourselves as trying to find a niche somewhere in the Ivy, but we're a work in progress. How long it will take us to become a legitimate work, I don't know. Long-range, we'll be fine, whether that's now or next year. We're not saying 'Wait until next year,' but we just need to start playing...
...20th century lived with the nuclear bomb, and there was great economic and scientific progress and much human happiness. The same can be true in the next century. Our tools for defending against new diseases are improving all the time. Vaccines are getting better. Drugs to fight bugs are advancing. And new devices are coming that will identify an infectious agent in seconds...
There are limits, of course, to how many lives you can give a pile of debris. In the long run, we have to reduce the amount of material we use in the first place. Some progress is being made--aluminum cans and plastic soda bottles have become thinner over the years, for example--but more sweeping reductions will require a whole new kind of manufacturing process...
...cloning to bring the woolly mammoth and other extinct animals back to life. Maybe Democrats and Republicans would want to try something similar. After all, candidates are always trying to link themselves to great leaders of the past. Why not cut out the middlemen? Given the pace of scientific progress, plus sufficiently audacious party leaders, the presidential debates of 2044 could feature some pretty impressive lineups. Imagine Abraham Lincoln taking on F.D.R. Or J.F.K. going up against Thomas Jefferson. Or Millard Fillmore vs. Warren Harding...