Word: thinge
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also having trouble, the first thing you should do is check out the resolutions that celebrities have made. You can either use them as inspirational springboards or simply appropriate them verbatim as your own. Surprisingly, celebrities are the consummate resolution makers. Asked a simple yes or no question (e.g., Will you be watching this year's Super Bowl on television?) your typical actor/singer/model will prattle on interminably about the Bhagavad-Gita, string theory and film restoration. But ask a celeb for a New Year's resolution and out comes a pithy, succinctly worded and cogent personal mission statement...
...investigation at the beginning of research. But once an experiment is on the books, the money keeps rolling in without much scrutiny. Those familiar with Kajander's case, while happy to disagree on which entity is ultimately responsible for how the drugs are used, seem to agree on one thing: Both the government and research institutions need to pay much closer attention to the process - and the inevitable risks - of drug research...
...past "democratically elected" governments in Pakistan did only one thing "for" the people, and that was loot them of their hard-earned money and spend it on themselves. Musharraf has finally stood up to save the nation from further misery. BASMA ABDI Karachi...
Despite what you might imagine, this is not a bad thing. For once he absorbed the outrage of false conviction, Carter turned fiercely inward. He wrote a good autobiography about his case, read spiritually uplifting books and learned to avoid everyone who might offer him false hope. He had to find the strength to endure entirely within himself...
...chance encounter with Japanese culture at a London exhibition--turns out to be The Mikado. And Mike Leigh's movie about mounting that best of all G. & S. works turns out to be one of the year's more beguiling surprises. It is not at all the sort of thing one expects from Leigh, the very sober creator of films like Naked and Secrets and Lies, for it is basically the story--somewhat comic, somewhat desperate, very carefully detailed--of rehearsing and putting on the operetta...