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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...women anywhere from age 16 to their mid-20s, rumschpringes is a kind of prolonged joyride, one last opportunity for them to romp in the pleasures of the "real world" before time runs out and the church, and adult baptism, beckons. During this period of indulgence, it's understood that teenagers tread, oh, so lightly, into the realm of dating; that the boys are likely to answer the siren call of a well-tuned engine (forbidden to baptized churchgoers); and that a few might even dabble in smoking and drinking. The teenagers join "gangs" and cavort with one another...
...make up its outer shell and thus forcing the body to churn out millions of new antibodies, all of which may become ineffective with the next mutation. Some parts of the virus don't change, however; if they did, HIV would rapidly lose its power to infect. If scientists understood more about those parts, they could use them as the basis for designing new drugs...
Mike was not alarmed by large campaign contributions. He understood that a satellite company needing a White House waiver to transfer technology to China might be generous to the Democratic National Committee and that a financial-services concern that wanted to squash a consumer-protection clause would feel inspired to support the campaign of Alfonse D'Amato, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee. He wasn't opposed to the system; he was opposed to ethanol. He believed that using corn for anything but feeding people or livestock was against the laws of nature...
...done anything illegal in firing off five nuclear explosions. It has only taken one small, first step in pursuing its national interests and security. The concept of taking action, one that was used by the U.S. in invading Panama and Grenada, and in bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki, should be understood and appreciated by the West. I hope that future governments of India will be even bolder and take more definitive steps to safeguard the country's security. SUNIL KARNIK Dayton...
...were Sennett's specialty. The advent of movies in the late 1890s had brought full visibility to the human personality, to the corporeal self that print, the dominant medium before film, could only describe and abstract. In a Sennett comedy, speechlessness raised itself to a racket, but Chaplin instinctively understood that visibility needs leisure as well as silence to work its most intimate magic...