Word: vitalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...small, furry army. On Wednesday, researchers at New York?s Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced that they had developed a new strain of mice, which look like your standard variety but carry an important piece of the cancer-prevention puzzle: They are genetically altered to delete the genes vital to the development of blood vessels that provide nourishment to tumors. Without the blood supply, the tumor eventually starves to death. This research comes on the heels of similar studies on rats, in which the injection of two proteins - possibly connected with the two genes - were shown...
Such would prove not to be the case. At 59:42, Cornell midfielder Brett Mackechnie furiously dribbled down the left wing, and at the last available instant, lofted a centering pass toward waiting midfielder Oswaldo Rodriguez, who put it past Mejias for the game's first and most vital goal...
...first, seem counter-intuitive, in an atmosphere of ostensible apathy, why not come out? This pretense of indifference--which is solely a pretense--pacifies lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students into a mannerly silence. The closeted convince themselves that being out is not a necessity or a vital political act and that overt homosexuality, like homophobia, is simply a failure of good breeding. If it is common courtesy that keeps students from homophobic violence, it is also what keeps them from queer expression. To be openly queer, and thus offensively queer, is to call into question the heterosexual noblesse oblige...
Coming out is the first, indeed, the most critical step in a vital project of resistance to those who would coerce us into silence and invisibility, a soul-killing courteousness...
...treaty has been yanked back into action when the Republicans feel certain that they have the votes to block it. The treaty was scheduled to come to a vote today, although President Clinton has requested that it be delayed to give the country more time to consider a vital issue of security...