Word: trended
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Luckily, a bevy of syndicated hour-long action series is filling the need--Baywatch without the plot. The best among them is Pamela Anderson Lee's V.I.P. And with that show's ratings success last season and the continued popularity of the trend-setting Xena: Warrior Princess, syndicated television has created five more female action shows, many of which involve very little action but a whole lot of show...
...sense, we have already divorced sex from reproduction. In the 1960s, the contraceptive pill freed women to enjoy sex for its own sake. At the same time, greater tolerance of homosexuality signaled society's acceptance of nonreproductive sex of another sort. These changes are only continuations of a trend that started perhaps a million years ago. As Richard Wrangham, professor of anthropology at Harvard, points out, "Most mammals lose interest in sex outside a restricted mating period. For a female chimpanzee, copulation is confined to the times when she has a pink swelling on her rump. Outside those lusty periods...
...despite the harangues of medical experts, who constantly point out that obesity can lead to diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure, that's not likely to change. We'll keep getting fatter and fatter, with no real prospect of reversing the trend...
...fatter. We can't undo evolution, and we haven't found a way to fool Mother Nature--yet. But before the 21st century is half over, with the body's fat-centric metabolism laid bare and the ability to manipulate genes part of medicine's standard tool kit, the trend may finally stop. Chubbiness may not disappear, but it could become optional. A future without Richard Simmons' commercials would be a wonderful future indeed...
...degree]C (1[degree]F) in the past century, with the '90s being the hottest decade in recent history. This fact is quoted widely in the scientific community, although there are nagging doubts even among researchers. Recent satellite records, using different kinds of instrumentation, fail to show a warming trend...