Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...protests had the power to shape ageneration's attitudes and beliefs, according tograduates. No longer was the majority alwaysright, no longer students accept the social norm...
...brighter, smaller ring are surrounding the site of a supernova, an exploding star whose violent death was recorded by astronomers in 1987. For millenniums before the blast, Burrows and his colleagues believe, the terminally ill star had been gushing out great volumes of gas, which formed an hourglass-shape "bubble." (The bubble would ordinarily have been spherical, except that the gas around its equator was especially thick and slow-moving and thus stayed relatively close to the supernova.) Then, when the star blew up, the flash of light made the gas glow. Most of the bubble is shining too faintly...
...right next to the shining supernova is a very faint object that may be a tightly compacted neutron star, the remains of an earlier supernova explosion. If so, it could, like other neutron stars, be spewing out twin beams of fast-moving particles. The particles, slamming into the hourglass- shape gas cloud, could have created rings that glowed more brightly after the more recent supernova went...
...effort to influence the final shape of the crime bill, the Senate voted to oppose the Racial Justice Act, a House proposal that would permit death-row defendants to fight their sentences by invoking statistics showing racial disparities in sentencing. Proponents of the Senate's nonbinding resolution described the House measure as a "quota bill" that would be used by opponents of the death penalty...
...Nearsightedness appears to be genetic, and may someday be preventable with drug therapy. The possible culprit: a defect in the gene that determines the shape of the eyeball...