Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eight little Piggies, Gould's newest book, is the sixth in his continuing series of essays collected from his monthly column in Natural History. With the book, Gould takes several timid (although timid to Gould is usually more than aggressive to most) steps toward discussing these vital issues...
...even, God forbid, that the Hasty Pudding is gay). But gay men have always had a particular propensity for camp, and if this year's show is any indication, gay men still contribute a great deal to the preservation and perpetuation of one of culture's most vital and vibrant expressions. Oscar Wilde would be proud. From his grave, I can hear him call, "You better work, girlfriends...
...social upheaval and threatened with extinction. "They are under siege," claims Kathleen Jo Ryan, photographer and producer of the book Ranching Traditions, a spectacular look at the haunting beauty and challenges of range life. "They are an endangered species," she says. These ranchers, she insists, not only supply a vital link of the food chain but also carry with them the cowboy heritage that is so much a part of American history. They are the fragile fabric of Western society that occupies the vast spaces and holds them together. "Reluctant heroes," Ryan calls them, a breed that stayed and endured...
...just to get a product to market," says a spokesman for Johnson & Johnson. "And for every one that gets there, there are several that fail because of unfavorable side effects, no demonstrable increase in benefits, or a variety of other reasons." Moreover, experts say, costly marketing programs are a vital extension of the companies' research efforts. Declares Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff: "What good does it do to discover a health- improving drug and not have anyone know about...
British-born Yale University historian Paul Kennedy became a mass-market commodity with the publication of his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers in 1987, a cross-century, cross-cultural study of the vital link between economic and military power. So what if Kennedy -- never a popularizer -- force-fed readers far more about the Habsburg Empire than most of them ever wanted to know? What mattered was that his thesis (a debt-ridden U.S. was fast running the risk of "imperial overstretch") perfectly captured the edgy mood of the late Reagan years, as opinion leaders began to brood...