Word: short
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once I overcame my initial repulsion, I discovered that the flat wasn't so bad. Mike, Joanna and Linda weren't exactly my type of people, but they were friendly and considerate roommates. The commute was short, all the household appliances worked, and I learned the joys of fivechannel British television programming...
...Students were confused, which we don't like to do," she said. "But the calls were generally very short because we had all the [correct financial aid] information on the screen...
...Amblad, Will Burke and Adam "Waka" Green) plainly state their mission--to present all of Shakespeare's plays--and take off like horses from a starting gate. They begin with a comparably lengthy rendition of Romeo and Juliet, continue with truncated versions of the Tragedies, and, with time running short, condense the Comedies into a skit in double time, and further distill the Histories into a few symbolic football plays. The Compleat Works ends in a rush when the players boil Hamlet down to five breath-taking words...
...would be more like cartoon characters than anything. It is overtly hilarious, and like a cartoon, the play organizes its humor into episodic bursts. Each "play" (like Romeo and Juliet) or group of plays (like the Comedies) is distinctly hilarious and could easily stand on its own as a short skit. The Titus Andronicus cooking show, the Othello rap, and the Histories football game were each side-splittingly funny...
AIDING INFANTS Babies of HIV-positive mothers face a 30% chance of contracting the virus during delivery. With the inexpensive and commonly used antiviral drug nevirapine, however, only about 13% of newborns become infected. That's better than a short course of costly AZT and requires just one pill for the mother during labor and a few drops for the baby within three days of birth. It should be a boon to the Third World, where mother-infant transmissions keep AIDS rampant...