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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Padilla feels he is satisfying his academic thirst as well. Instead of the thesis, he is taking a government seminar on democratization in Latin America, a subject that greatly interests...

Author: By Angela C. Walch, | Title: Seniors Ponder Thesis Agonies | 3/14/1997 | See Source »

According to a representative of the Discovery Channel--which will broadcast coverage of the Eco-Challenge next week--competitors participate to "take on the elements and quench their thirst for adventure...

Author: By Alexandra S. Morrison, | Title: Researcher to Host Discovery Channel Adventure | 2/14/1997 | See Source »

...less talented hands this could have become a heavy-handed tract, but Mosley never stoops to propaganda. And while his characters often verge on the bizarre, they are leavened by a reaffirming dose of humanity: Domaque, the hunchback with a thirst for reading; Miss Dixon, a half-crazed white spinster whose whims determine the fate of black families unlucky enough to live on her land; Momma Jo, the hoodoo priestess who forces herself on Easy in a hilarious seduction scene. But overshadowing them all is the enigmatic Mouse, who combines terrifying bloodthirstiness with naive romanticism; he murders his stepfather...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: EASY'S EARLY DAYS | 1/20/1997 | See Source »

...party woes and reinvigorate (or maybe just invigorate) our paltry non-academic lives. This past January, to lavish press and fantastic accolades, two groups of scientists independently reported that, in the words of a New York Times article on the first of this month, "people with an unshakable thirst for new sensations, who are impulsive, hot-blooded, fickle, excitable and extravagant, tend to have a distinctive variant of a gene that allows the brain to respond to dopamine, an essential communication signal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: We're Not Just Genes | 11/9/1996 | See Source »

...when they involve a presidential haircut. It is irrelevant whether the press constitutes the cause or the effect. What we know is that journalists have not risen above the desire for gossip; they have not embraced the ethic of their trade; instead, they have kow-towed to the public thirst for all the trash not fit to print...

Author: By Daniel M. Suleiman, | Title: 'This Town': Manners, Media and Politics | 10/25/1996 | See Source »

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