Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When tests screen for HIV, they are determining the presence of antibodies to the HIV virus. Once infected, a person enters the window period in which they develop the antibodies...
...Screen star John Travolta has accused the German government of discriminating against his religion, reports People Daily. Travolta told a mass rally of Scientologists in Berlin protesting Germany's tough stance on their group that there was no excuse for governments to discriminate against religious bodies...
...then, Rauschenberg had stopped making his work from actual objects and was using overlays of silk-screened photos, an idea he got from Andy Warhol. The paintings--like Estate, 1963--that won him the grand prize at the 1964 Venice Biennale, with their high, bright color and rapid shuttle of images, conveyed an extraordinary impression of the electronic image glut that comes from TV. Through silk screen, Rauschenberg could now compress fragments of events as well as things into his work, giving it a heightened, broken-up documentary flavor--history painting for channel surfers...
While I applaud the Promise Keepers' vows to mend their ways through penance, responsibility and religion, I cannot help feeling that this "boys' club" is merely a smoke screen for an effort to gain dangerous power over others. What would happen if these men kept their promises of love, respect and commitment toward loved ones without the burden of being "in command"? I find it frightening, yet sad, that they cannot separate love from power. JANIS BABCOCK Danville, Calif...
...Fonda says that exercise, once an obsession, has become "a sidebar." "I'll be 60 in December," she pronounces with the honesty only someone who looks 40 could bring to the subject. Being happily married has freed her to discover a satisfying life beyond the gym and the silver screen, she says. Cutting teen pregnancy is a big part of it. Newt & Co., watch...