Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alliance is far too divided to rescue such a small province. Milosevic is starting to turn up the pressure. He has issued a draft order for all battle-age Montenegrins, and his promises that no locals would be sent to Kosovo have been abandoned. Trees along boulevards now sprout the death notices of local soldiers killed in Kosovo. A civil war here would surely bring the dying closer to home...
...mishmash in which vague intuitions and precise logic coexisted on equal terms, mathematics at the end of the 19th century was finally being shaped up. So-called formal systems were devised (the prime example being Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica) in which theorems, following strict rules of inference, sprout from axioms like limbs from a tree. This process of theorem sprouting had to start somewhere, and that is where the axioms came in: they were the primordial seeds, the Ur-theorems from which all others sprang...
...journal Science reports that researchers at Harvard Medical School have successfully harvested basic chicken legs in chick embryos -- complete with leg-like muscles, and clawed implements -- by transferring a leg gene called Pitx1 into the area of the embryo where the wings usually sprout. Learning about the role of genes in limb formation, they believe, will lead to a greater understanding of limb development in humans and greater knowledge of Holt-Oram syndrome, a condition that produces truncated forearms...
...problem with heroism is that it can't be grown hydroponically. Heroes do not sprout through training programs. They do not blossom through a series of interviews or bloom from an advanced degree program. Instead, heroes emerge out of circumstances that call for heroism. They are often the people from whom we expect the least, the people who shock us by rising to the occasion. True heroism exists only in times of crisis...
...taken a backseat to a different dish in the land of Liege, at least according to an interactive information service. If one is to believe the data accumulated by Scoot, a venture that provides toll-free information both online and over the phone, what really makes Brussels sprout is information on where to score a hot, saucy... pizza...