Word: shadowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...When I first read the book, as a teenager, I found it such an exuberant liberation from any false notion of femaleness. And Orlando's 400-year life-span -- it's a wonderful device for looking at the melancholy of mortality. I was a child growing up under the shadow of a possible nuclear holocaust; now I see young people growing up under the shadow of aids. We have a bittersweet feeling of living in the moment, knowing that shortly that moment will be gone forever. Woolf says it is important to value the intensity of your life...
...scientists from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Helsinki believe that they have found the answer. "What has heretofore been called familial colon cancer can now be called heritable colon cancer," says Dr. Bert Vogelstein, professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins. "Our groups have proved beyond any shadow of a doubt that a genetically determined predisposition to colon cancer exists." About 1 in 7 cases of colon cancer -- the second leading cause of cancer deaths in the world -- can be attributed to this faulty gene...
...four of the 21 surviving children have been placed with parents and relatives. Yet Koresh still looms as an ambivalent shadow, a daunting memory. In their drawings the compound is both riddled with bullet holes and depicted as the kingdom of heaven. In other drawings, they surrounded the words I LOVE DAVID with hearts. "They learned to substitute the word love for fear," Perry told the New York Times. Living a normal life will not be easy. "We were all waiting for the end to happen," says Kiri Jewell. It has -- and now life must...
These lessons are important, but in the shadow of the Holocaust rather banal. They do not require the authority of Auschwitz. They follow easily enough from Soweto and Howard Beach, from Sarajevo and Nagorno-Karabakh...
...want," says Tribe "and to express any viewpoint, however hateful, has nothing to do with some kind of license to target victims of violence based on their race, sex, religion or sexual orientation." If the court struck down these laws, he adds, "the decision would cast a long shadow of doubt over all antidiscrimination measures and much of criminal law because the state of mind of the offenders is typically a critical element of how crimes are defined and how punishment is meted...