Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shuttle Discovery, scheduled for a week from now Oct. 29, will perform experiments to measure the temperature of particles at the sun's surface, an area that Kohl has researched since 1974. They will also conduct research exploring using the link between space flight and aging, Glenn as a subject...
Hersh, who recently published an article on the subject in The New Yorker, was hosted by the Harvard Law School Forum...
Sanger has also been the subject of at least two television movies within the past few years: HBO's Woman of Valor, which starred Demi Moore, and Lifetime's Crusader: The Margaret Sanger Story, which starred Dana Delany. Life magazine in 1991 named Sanger one of the "100 Most Important Americans of the Century" (apparently operating on the belief that the succeeding nine years would offer no further examples of importance). Whenever the media takes notice of Sanger, she is lionized as the ultimate champion of women's rights, as was the case in A Will of Their Own. This...
...begin to appreciate what it is about this grueling discipline that leads women and men to dedicate their lives (social and academic) to doing something as maddeningly simple as moving a boat fast. We begin to understand--barely--what motivates some of our peers to subject themselves to three or four hours a day of training starting in September for a sport that culminates in a national championship lasting a mere six minutes...
...Marie Charpillon, a smart little tart who is rather more skillful at keeping Giacomo Casanova out of her petticoats than he is at getting into them. The thrusts and ploys of this frustrated courtship are stylishly recounted by an English-born novelist, expanding upon an episode in his subject's vast memoir. Miller's limning of London in 1763 and 1764, with its acrid stenches and incessant rains, has the picturesque grunge of a Hogarth sketch...