Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief glimpses of General Radek (Jurgen Prochnow) plunge us back into the Cold War: As he strides across the prison yard in highly decorated military uniform, he looks the epitome of a maniacal tyrant. But it's Oldman's performance as Korshunov that gives the film its tension and intensity, adding layers to his character's coolly calculating role with outbursts of frightening patriotic zeal for "Mother Russia." There is also a revealing moment when Korshunov gently kisses Alice on the forehead and strokes back her hair from her tear-stained face, suggesting that beneath the seemingly cold-blooded terrorist...
...realize that every Administration tends to make me nostalgic for the Administration that preceded it, but at this time of year, I do find myself missing George H.W. Bush, who was without tension in matters such as where one should summer. He went to Kennebunkport, Maine, where he had always gone. And there he played golf with his rich friends...
...LOWDOWN ON CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA In contrast to three previous U.S. studies, researchers now say that kids who live near high-tension power lines do not have a significantly increased risk of leukemia...
First, some background. Researchers have known since the 1960s that not all headaches are the same, medically speaking. Tension headaches, which are the easiest to treat, are triggered by clenched muscles in the head and neck. Migraines, which generate a throbbing pain that is sometimes preceded by an "aura" and can last 12 to 24 hours, are produced by blood vessels that alternately constrict and expand. Cluster headaches are even worse than migraines--if you can imagine such a thing--and scientists suspect that overactive blood vessels play a role in them too. One of the hallmarks of cluster headaches...
...when a number of guards charged they had experienced discriminatory treatment, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III said racial tension in the guard unit was "a serious problem" for the College. He told The Crimson that such tension might affect how guards treat students...