Word: spiriting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the fact that Pete had made the finals was the real miracle. The greatest moments in sports are when an athlete's spirit drives him or her beyond all physical expectations. Of course, we have had Kerri Strug rammed down our throats since the Olympics...
That sort of spirit also guides the efforts researchers are making to identify the types of degeneration that can be forestalled through preventive--and often remarkably simple--measures. Since 1993, physiologist Ethan Nadel and epidemiologist Loretta DiPietro, both of Yale University, have been pioneering a five-year study on the effects of exercise. The question at the heart of the effort is whether exercise can slow the effects of aging--and if so, which ones. "It is no secret that exercise is beneficial, but people age differently," says DiPietro. "The question we are asking is whether we can truly separate...
...catalog of conventional wisdom, the most hopeful outcome of the 1996 election is a scenario in which the Democratic President and the Republican Congress actually work together to govern in a spirit of comity and bipartisanship, thereby fulfilling the mandate of the voters...
...presidential election "about"? It's about government, in particular, Federal Government. And what, over the past 15 years, have our conservative politicians taught us about that nebulous entity? That it's an evil, of course, and not even a necessary one--a hideous succubus sucking away at the American spirit. (The unmentioned exceptions being those parts that involve prisons and the Pentagon, i.e., the ever colorful and entertaining use of armed force.) So in some ways, the soul-numbing tedium of '96 was the inevitable product of the venerable practice of government bashing. If these fellows were competing over something...
...presidential campaign heads into the home stretch, students looking to catch its spirit can find it at the Institute of Politics...