Word: stemness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sponsors may want Nadal to become a man, he needs to be his own man. Fans love Nadal because he seems so real. Even his most deliberate calculations - to pick up the racquet in his left hand and hit the ball in a way nobody has before - seem to stem from a subversive instinct. For tennis's antihero, on the court at least, normal might be a step...
...demanding a Palestinian Islamic state in its place. Hamas' militancy strained the 1993 Oslo Accords, brokered between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, which relinquished control of parts of occupied Gaza and the West Bank to a semi-autonomous government, the Palestinian Authority, in exchange for an agreement to stem the violence. The Palestinian Authority's inability to halt attacks from groups like Hamas and its mismanagement of the occupied areas, combined with Israel's refusal to dismantle the remaining settlements, fractured the accord and led to a second Palestinian Intifada in 2000. Israeli withdrawal of forces and settlements...
...issue during the U.S. Presidential campaign again. Democratic candidates Senators Hillary Clinton - whose husband signed the treaty in 1993 - and Barack Obama both blamed NAFTA for lost American manufacturing jobs and suggested that terms might be renegotiated to include higher labor and environmental standards. The idea would be to stem the "race to the bottom" among companies seeking the cheapest costs of doing business, ultimately encouraging them to keep jobs in place...
...advanced sign of the disease, the final stage of a 10- or 20-year gradual decline in nerve function. In fact, experts believe that the condition actually begins with a loss of smell and a degeneration of nerves in the olfactory tract, then proceeds to the gut and brain stem. At some point along this march, the nerve damage hits the pons, a region in the brain that regulates sleep. "So in Parkinson's, there is a period that we don't know how long it lasts, in which the neurons are dying in the brain, just...
...singular virtue for achieving salvation. In just the past month, the Vatican has announced its opposition to a United Nations proposal to protect gays from being criminalized and punished by governments for their orientation, and released a doctrinal office document reinforcing the Church's opposition to assisted fertility and stem cell research...