Word: stampings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Christopher Rose, an Episcopal priest in Hartford who works with his city's homeless, thought Steve the Tramp's grotesque villainy was a cruel attack on his unfortunate clients. Particularly incensed by the lurid resume that adorned Steve the Tramp's packaging, Rose launched a campaign to stamp out the tramp. He got his point across to Disney and Playmates, which have decided to drop the terrifying toy. But the move comes too late to recall the product from retailers' shelves before Christmas...
...womb is the first home. Thereafter, home is the soil you come from and recognize, what you knew before uprooted: creatures carry an imprint of home, a stamp -- the infinitely subtle distinctiveness of temperature and smell and weather and noises and people, the intonations of the familiar. Each home is an unrepeatable configuration; it has personality, its own emanation, its spirit of place. Nature's refugees, like eels and cranes, are neither neurotic nor political, and so steer by a functional homing instinct. Human beings invented national boundaries and the miseries of exile; they have messier, more tragic forms...
...reminded, but he was more than welcome to come in. Not only would the authorities take care of his visa; they would also confirm plane tickets, provide him with a hotel and meals, set him up with a guide. And since so many countries regard a North Korean stamp as a stigma, they would give him a detachable visa that he could throw away as soon as he left...
Students will be students. Passionate and idealistic, we will brave rain and snow to protest the latest administrative injustice. We will stamp our feet for a women's center and raise our fists for South African divestment. And so we should. Harvard just wouldn't be Harvard without...
That is the momentous implication of the latest in an interminable line of coffee studies. It is tempting to pay attention to this one, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, since it represents a large-scale research effort and bears the prestigious stamp of the Harvard School of Public Health. The school's investigators studied 45,589 men aged 40 to 75 years, some of whom averaged six or more cups of coffee daily. (As is too often the case in medical research, women were left out of the study.) The finding: these coffee drinkers were...