Word: typed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time it took to type this out, mankind had its first radioactive mushroom cloud, and nothing would ever be the same. Project Director Oppenheimer realized this immediately, and his reach into Hindu scripture has become famous: "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Even before the test blast, Danish Physicist Niels Bohr foresaw a fundamental change in the relationships among nation-states. Both Hitler and Churchill, on the other hand, failed to grasp the political consequences of the new energy. "After all," said the Prime Minister, "this new bomb is just going to be bigger than our present...
...then he proceeded to "read my mind." First he told me what type of mood I was in, and what he thought was bothering me. Though he never went into such detail as being able to tell me the names of important people or what I'd eaten for breakfast, I cannot deny that he was very perceptive...
...nation reconsiders the type of return it expects from its investment in education, many politicians have urged that universities be sure they are successfully teaching their students. But as the assessment efforts have grown in the past few years the question scholars have yet to answer is what constitutes a good education. Is it concentrating on a narrow body of knowledge--the terminology of economics or developing broad interdisciplinary skills as the concepts now emphasized...
...this L.A. band that it is essentially a new group. Personnel shakeups have brought drummer R. Kahr and lead guitarist Jeff Ross into the group. Ross's guitar pyrotechnics have changed Rank and File's style accordingly, from a country-edged punk flavoring to a corporate-rock, Jefferson Starship-type sound...
...killer live band. The credit for the successes of Paris--and the blame for its failures--must rest on the shoulders of producer Ian "Mack" McKenzie, who committed that live sound to vinyl. For most of the songs, the production is too antiseptic, too well-scrubbed for the type of rough, crude music the Huxtons play. Occasionally, though, McKenzie and the Huxtons click, as on the wall-of-noise landscape behind the Huxton's theme song "I've Been Around...