Word: rising
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Grim Reaper himself may slow his pace for the oldest old. While the chance of dying increases exponentially with each year from 50 to 90, the odds rise less steeply after...
...Lithuanian immigrant with a degree in English literature from Oregon's Reed College, first envisioned a neighborhood hangout for bohemian intellectuals-"the kind of place," as he wrote in his memoir, where "when the conversation soared and bristled with wit and good feeling, perhaps a resident poet would rise and declaim some verses...
Grudges notwithstanding, perceptions are growing more sophisticated with the rapid rise of Mexican immigration to the U.S. and the explosion of commerce since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect last year. The border, Mexicans like to say, is mostly imaginary, despite patrols, guard dogs and chain-link fences. ``They could plant land mines, and it would not stop people from crossing,'' says Mexicali writer Sergio Gomez Montero. ``We may not like gringos for historical reasons, but today the world is dividing into commercial blocks, and we are handcuffed to each other for better or for worse.'' Travel...
...France and the Portrait, 1799-1870." This installation of works from the permanent collections explores the changing conventions and practices of portraiture in France between the rise to power of Napoleon Bonaparte and the fall of the Second Empire...
...painters, photographers and digital artists who are building their own galleries in cyberspace -- all in addition to the digitally savvy filmmakers who have already transformed cinema. Lanier embodies a whole new genre of music that uses computers to create and disseminate its own distinctive sounds. Another practitioner on the rise is Italian astrophysicist Fiorella Terenzi, 30, who has been described as a cross between Madonna and Carl Sagan. Terenzi has used audio telescopes to intercept radio waves from a galaxy 180 million light-years away, then fed them into a computer, applied a sound-synthesis program to convert her data...