Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team of Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers, led by Professor Timothy A. Springer and Research Fellow Conrad Bleul, announced yesterday that they have discovered and isolated a secondary strain of HIV, called the T-tropic strain...
...Miss West Virginia, the contests may have been good fun. For pageant organizers, they often mean big bucks. Throughout the country, especially in California and the South, a complex network of pageant systems, as they are called, make up the circuit, with pageants sponsored by the likes of Hawaiian Tropic and Beauty Unlimited held in shopping malls and hotel ballrooms. According to Ted Cohen, editor of the International Directory of Pageants, there are about 3,000 pageants a year in the U.S., 500 of which cater to the preteen-and-under set. Children could compete every weekend, if they...
...award cars, cash or scholarship money. A pageant based in Florida, Sunburst U.S.A. International, gives away more than $1 million in prizes every year. At age six, Lisa Iverson is already "Miss American Beauty Queen of Hearts," "Children of the World Supreme Winner," "U.S.A. National Scholarship Little Miss," Hawaiian Tropic "Superstar Photogenic," Hawaiian Tropic "Hollywood Babe" and "Miss American Starlet Fashion Model." She has won enough money to pay for college...
...back to read him--with an open head and heart." Unfortunately, though she makes some interesting claims (e.g. "Ultimately Miller can be a stronger force for feminism than for male chauvinism."), few heads and hearts will be opened by her critical commentary. Jong quotes a passage from Miller's Tropic of Cancer, for example--"I too would become a Jew...Why not? I already speak like a Jew. And I am as ugly as a Jew. Besides, who hates the Jews more than Jews?"--and then explains this passage as just an example of "Henry's lifelong habit of letting...
...pleasure and a music out of saying yes. Where an Old World master, like the peerless Graham Greene, could write elegant circles around doubt, hedging belief in with a knot of moral ironies, Miller just went straight to faith. From the first page of his first book, Tropic of Cancer -- "I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive" -- through 50-odd books about finding ecstasy in squalor, he simply sang of life and love as if the two were interchangeable. His guiding star was Rabelais's "For all your ills I give you laughter...