Word: reflective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news coverage reporting on a celebration of Israel on the Boston Common also covered a protest for Palestine taking place just yards away. Students last week celebrated 50 years of Israel in front of the Science Center, while posters entitled "Palestine 50" were put up around the Yard to reflect the Palestinian perspective. The enthusiasm of celebration and the zeal of protest make the issue more real in our minds and call to our attention the questions being raised...
...made me reflect on what makes a good national leader. I believe it is the person who embodies the spirit of a nation or age, has a vision of the future and yet has a clear understanding of the past, is charismatic and can inspire. It is a person who is not afraid to make unpopular decisions and take calculated risks if the situation warrants it. KENNETH L. ZIMMERMAN Huntington Beach, Calif...
Three of the warmest years of the 20th century were bunched in the 1990s. Does this reflect a long-term warming of the globe by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases, as many atmospheric scientists have contended? Or was the hot spell just a random, unexceptional fluctuation in the weather? A study published last week in Nature magazine by climatologist Michael Mann and colleagues from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, may help melt away any lingering doubt about global warming. The scientists developed what amounts to a time-traveling thermometer. Applying innovative statistical tools to reams of evidence gathered from...
...seven years of imprisonment, Wang said he had plenty of time to reflect on his role in the Tiananmen Square massacre, known in Chinese as 6-4, as in June...
...gold and silver, and the armor, huge and golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals." But these are more than gorgeous works of art. The elaborate figures depicted by and on these objects, and the stylistic themes they reflect, give historians their first direct window onto Thracian society, commerce, religion and, in at least one bawdy applique depicting copulating newlyweds, sexuality. Poets and warriors, indeed...