Word: traps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alone. At the same time, evidence of global warming's dangers has continued to mount. When politicians started talking seriously about the problem in the late 1980s, the relationship between the proliferation of carbon dioxide and a warming world was largely theoretical. Scientists knew that CO2 and other gases trap the sun's energy; in fact, without any CO2 at all in the atmosphere, the planet would be frozen solid. The notion that extra, human-generated CO2 might drive temperatures too far the other way was convincing. But if warming was on the way, it was too gradual...
...Margot Eberman de Ferranti turned 50 and resigned from the civil division at the Justice Department to become a mediator in local courts. Economist Karen Hagstrom Johnson says, "I still have the same job at the Federal Reserve Board. I think that I have fallen into the trap of letting my work expand to fit the available time." Irene Marie Leary just decided to attend law school while continuing full-time work for Texas Instruments. Computer scientist Elaine Lipshutz Best says, "I imagine it seems odd to people who remember me that I am working at Los Alamos National...
Until that Friday in October, every 8% decline since 1982 had also been a fabulous buying opportunity. But what made that Friday a death trap, the worst of all possible times to buy? Let's review that moment, because the question of buying or selling the next big dip, rather than the question of whether there could be another crash (answer: sure as shootin') can make us a big pile of money the next time around...
Overall, the musical is worth seeing, but only for the matinee price. The singing by both Mills and Talmadge is weak and unclear, leaving one constantly straining to hear them. Those who loved Mills in Pollyanna and The Parent Trap will be very disappointed with her voice. Everyone knows the songs and can sing along, but it would have been great to hear one of these characters, preferably the King, really belt one out. Worse still, sexism, classicism and European elitism (the three evil isms) abound in this musical: the fact that European culture is valued over Asian culture...
...Laszlo Kreizler seem a bit further from the center of things here than they did in The Alienist. True, he affronts received opinion by postulating that a woman, because of her treatment in childhood, may be quite capable of murdering her own children and those of others. He helps trap the woman he has described. But for the trial to go forward he must declare her sane, a judgment that would have seemed as mushy at the beginning of the Freudian era as it does now. For a long stretch of chapters, the trial seizes the story, and Kreizler...