Word: tracts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that will be background noise compared with the unremitting fiscal conservatism that the G.O.P. candidates are likely to preach to an antideficit choir of Perot backers in Dallas. The Democrats can offer only a cacophony of views, ranging from the leftist tract of Jackson to the more centrist perspectives of House minority leader Richard Gephardt of Missouri and Senate minority leader Tom Daschle. Clinton counselor Thomas "Mack" McLarty, relatively conservative, will stand in for the President...
Thus Congress--and the nation--is now full of indignant wannabe reformers who know next to nothing about American culture but want to get tough on it. They have no idea that there is a vast, complex and valuable tract of images between Norman Rockwell's Thanksgiving turkey and Andres Serrano's photo of a crucifix in urine. Years of adroit propaganda by the religious right have convinced many of them that a vote for preserving the nea in any form is a vote for sodomy, blasphemy and child abuse. This has become a matter of indurated faith, resistant...
...origin of species, facilitating the process of evolutionary change. Scientists now know, for example, that the genes that trigger the formation of hands and feet also control many other developmental processes in the posterior part of an animal -- among them, the addition of an anal opening to the digestive tract and, in four-legged creatures, the fusion of the lower vertebrae to make a pelvis. Isn't it curious, says Duboule, that fish lack a true pelvis as well as hands and feet? This suggests to him that both structures -- the appendages for walking and the bony apparatus that anchors...
George Washington had his cherry tree, Abe Lincoln his log cabin and Newt Gingrich -- according toa new inspirational tract available at bookstores everywhere-- had French inflation. The House Speaker's controversial book, "To Renew America," which went on sale today, is full of revelations, says TIME Daily's Robertson Barrett. Among them: When Newt's military dad was stationed in France, sky-high French inflation taught a 13-year-old Gingrich that "when a government cheats its own people by inflating the currency rather than facing tough political decisions, it is inviting trouble." On the return trip to America...
...natural role in the body. Estrogen is powerful stuff. Receptors for the hormone are found in some 300 different tissues, from brain to bone to liver. This means that in one way or another, all these tissues respond to the presence of estrogen. Some, including tissues in the urinogenital tract, the blood vessels, the skin and the breasts, require estrogen to maintain their tone and flexibility...