Word: stepping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next couple weeks to watch audience reaction to his film. Maybe he'll realize that Fight Club isn't as "funny" as he thinks it is. Maybe he'll realize that biting satire often blurs into the irresponsible. Maybe he'll realize he took the "traumatized male" theme one step too far. Or maybe he's still mesmerized by the sheer brutality of it all--the glistening blood spattered on the wall. He's so enthralled by its color, its undeniable immediacy, that he can't see its indelible pattern...
...sudden, I can barely wait for the next chance to step outside. I make excuses to take the long way homeosometimes I even wander through the streets of Cambridge with nothing on my mind but a desire to avoid a journey indoors. When I'm out in the autumn air, it's as if I'm magically transported far away from Harvard. It's as if I'm 10 years old, right back at home in Ridgewood...
...public school system needs to step forward and take responsibility for people who are struggling," he said...
...ever-earlier creeping of the political season can give candidates the opportunity to present full-fledged conceptions of American problems such as violence and work on selling the public on solutions that won't fit into a soundbite. Having the courage to step forward and truly say something means facing the fallout of critics, but only an immature or rapidly diminishing political system can be content with slogans in the place of ideas. Debates can only bring us closer to a campaign that tackles tough concerns, and candidates offered a debate should prove their seriousness by accepting as soon...
...idea of starving tumors of their blood supply is one of the leading areas of research in cancer prevention and cures," says TIME science writer Mike Lemonick. While this study doesn?t translate directly into a treatment for humans, Lemonick explains, it?s certainly a notable step toward a solution. "Nobody?s suggesting we genetically alter humans this way, but the better we understand the behavior of tumors, the more likely we are to find a cure," says Lemonick. "This could eventually lead to a very effective cancer treatment. We don?t know that it will...