Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...project picks up speed--team members predict that, having cleared this first hurdle, the remaining 22 chromosomes should be mapped by the projected 2005 completion date--the debate around the nature of the work is reaching a fevered pitch. If millennium doomsdayers seem frightening with their predictions of global demise, they don't hold a candle to the groups that claim that the Human Genome Project is the first step towards an existence straight out of Huxley's Brave New World...
...George W. Bush, more at ease than at last week's forum in New Hampshire, still relied heavily on recycled passages from his stump speech, and he flunked another of those SATs journalists seem to have taken it upon themselves to give him: Asked what he had learned from a biography of former secretary of state Dean Acheson, which he said last week he was reading, Bush offered "that our nation's greatest export to the world has been, is and always will be the incredible freedoms we understand in the great land called America," and other generalities from...
...spotted a lot of confusion between the Remote Access control panel, the TCP/IP control panel and the AirPort extension. Such balkanized Internet responsibility doesn't seem right for a company aiming to build a computer for Everyman...
...Steel paints Robert as much more conservative than the liberal, even radical movement he sought to lead. But his huge appeal is rooted in the fact that he was a troubled man in a troubled time. "The Bobby Myth," he concludes, "is our creation, not his." Steel makes Robert seem less than we remember; Clymer makes Teddy more important than we may have thought...
...some early success, they raise some hefty ethical questions - should we put kids in control of sending their parents to jail? Can the single parent of a grown high school student make his or her child go to school? As with most areas of education reform, there don't seem to be any simple solutions, but one thing remains clear: The U.S. won't become the world leader in education it wants to be until its kids start going to class...