Word: thought
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...become an accustomed part of the way of life in Cedar Rapids. At a recent girls' track meet, runners, shotputters, hurdlers, high jumpers pitted themselves, one by one, in the age-old contests to run faster, leap higher, throw farther. For many, there were accomplishments they once would have thought impossible. A mile relay team fell into triumphant embrace when word came of qualification for the state finals. Team members shouted the joy of victory?"We did it!" ?and then asked permission to break training: "Now can we go to the Dairy Queen, Coach?" Granted...
...need to defend what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes used to call '"freedom for the thought that we hate" is not easy to accept, for a public whose thoughts naturally turn to gas chambers and attempted genocide. The A.C.L.U. has been bitterly attacked for defending Nazis' rights. Its membership, heavily Jewish, has dropped from a peak of 270,000 in 1976 to 200,000 today. A resultant $500,000 decline in dues and gifts has caused staff layoffs of up to 15% in some state offices. There is now less money to defend civil rights and liberties...
...first, archaeologists thought that the find was related to a 6th century A.D. building, similar in structure, at nearby Doon Hill, in East Lothian. But radiocarbon dating of the wood at Balbridie Farm indicates that the timber was felled as long ago as 4000 B.C. The composition and style of pottery shards found in one of the pestholes are characteristic of that time. Thus the hall was apparently built at least 1,000 years before Stonehenge, and is several centuries older than a small timber hutch in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, that has until now been regarded as the most...
...thing, its antiquity runs counter to the prevailing idea about the development of civilization in Scotland: that it slowly edged up from the south. On the contrary, the Balbridie building's age suggests not only that the old Scots were ahead of their English brethren-an appealing thought to any proud wearer of kilt and plaidie-but also that their society was as accomplished as those in the Middle East, where the first glimmerings of civilization are generally thought to have appeared. Indeed, says Ralston, at a time when these old Scots were "supposed to be fumbling with...
...cancer cells.) According to Salmon, the cancer cells that thrive and form colonies in the laboratory's plastic petri dishes appear to be the tumor's "clonogenic," or "stem," cells. Though they account for less than 1% of all the cells in a tumor, these cells are thought to be the cancer's key replicating units; they divide and migrate, "seeding" new cancers in the body in a process called metastasis...