Word: snow
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Snow, the British scientist and novelist, sounded the alarm in the 1950s about the dangers of two cultures: "Literary intellectuals at one pole, at the other scientists." Since then, microchips, satellites and nuclear power have become realities that define everyday life; yet many supposedly well-educated people do not understand how they work. Despite the growing use of computers in classrooms, American universities are still graduating millions of technological illiterates...
...What Snow called a "gulf of mutual incomprehension" yawns ever wider, according to Stanford Engineering Professor James Adams, who describes the problem as a conflict between the "techs" (engineers and scientists) and the "fuzzies" (liberal arts students): "The techs are considered by the fuzzies to be nerds. The techs, in turn, consider the fuzzies as only marginal at reaching logical conclusions, probably unable to keep their bicycles in operation and completely unable to support themselves after graduation...
...pretty nervous playing in the tournament--in was my first time ever really playing a game in the goal," Judge says with a grin. "It was snowing and cold, I could see pike's Peak from the goal. I remember practicing my slides in the snow...
...bends over to kiss me. I don't want him to I think of case histories, devoted wives who turned kleptomaniac two days month, the mother who threw her baby out into the snow. It was in Reader's Digest, she had a hormone disturbance, love is all chemical I want it to he over, this long abrasive competitions for the role of victim. It's like an Elizabethan tragedy or a horror movie. I know which ones will be killed...
When dining out, a fur coat is a fantasy necessity. Fendi's one-of-a-kind Croiset Norka fox ($75,000, from Neiman-Marcus) would do nicely, but a "full-length sweep of splendor" made of Russian snow lynx bellies ($125,000, from Sakowitz) is more tasteful if less carefree. To stay svelte, anyone would love Heartmate, an electronically controlled aerobic exercise bicycle ($4,000, from Abercrombie & Fitch). The avid pedaler can listen to music, AMFM, or view television on the machine's console, while monitoring digital read-outs of mileage, heart rate, calorie expenditure and countdown timing...