Word: understood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extent her virginity has controlled her life by filling her essay with passion. Another contributor, also writing about losing control of his life, he with the help of heroin, allows himself to take a tone that is cooler and more detached because his experience is more commonly expressed and understood. A black writer, examining the conflict he feels between his race and his middle class upbringing, writes his essay largely in the second person, thereby splitting himself in two so as to allow for a dialogue. To show indecision, another writer breaks up her essay into brief passages, each presenting...
...reliable cloning technique for an animal that has such well understood genetics and reproduces so rapidly (up to five generations in a year) means that scientists will be able to study in detail the process by which genes turn on and turn off, and thus how cells become specialized for particular jobs in the body. And if Wakayama's technique can be scaled up to larger animals--a question researchers are already making plans to answer--the research could lead to all sorts of applications...
...understood that it's a vegetarian house during the year," Wuchimitch said. "A lot of people don't have a good understanding of the history...
...little starstruck--which was probably a good match for most of the readers she was after. As former editor of Vanity Fair, she was schooled in the ways of Conde Nast Publications, the Newhouse family's high-luster group of magazines, which also include Vogue and GQ. She also understood that the New Yorker was different. Watching her try to blend the sacred and profane was one of the great journalistic pastimes of recent years. Her brain was a table-of-contents mosh pit: a place where a literary memoir mixed with a dispatch from Hollywood, followed by another from...
...current feminist movement is best understood as a reflection of a society whose primary value is not achievement but celebrity. The real question for women and men alike is not "Are you a feminist?" but "Are you somebody?" BRAD DESCH New York City...