Word: wave
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...ironies he culls from the history of medicine bode well for the disease-free future imagined by some prophets of biotech. Earlier this century, breakthroughs in antibiotics inspired similarly confident predictions that the ancient scourges would soon be eradicated. Now, however, we are faced with wave after wave of drug-resistant microbes, and we are running out of antibiotics to fight them...
...used to be that with the Wave and a few handshakes a President could be on his way after a fund raiser. Nixon launched the Big One, raising both arms above his head so far that his suit jacket came up to his ears. Reagan swept his hand through the air and stared mistily into the sunset; then he'd schmooze briefly in a structured receiving line and be in bed by 10 p.m. Barbara Bush introduced the Point-and-Wave technique, and at a large fund-raising dinner Wednesday night, the Clintons used it several times. Mrs. Clinton...
...even in the age of hip-hop, a fair number of musicians, including the Artist Formerly Known As Prince, have managed to create challenging soul. Most recently, there has been a smallish wave from Britain of what could be termed alternative soul, or neo-soul--music by performers who take the traditional songwriting structures and approaches associated with soul and R. and B. and tweak them with twisting rhythms, eccentric melodies and skewed lyrics. That English wavelet includes the solo performers Seal, Des'ree and Tricky and the group Portishead...
Early reports on the arrests said the Atlanta Olympic Games had been targeted with more than a dozen pipe bombs. The news caused a wave of anxiety at an Olympic media summit in progress in Atlanta at the time. Federal and state officials, however, rushed to deny any link to the Games, blaming the reports on erroneous leaks. Georgia Bureau of Investigations spokesman John Bankhead clarified the militia's main enemy: "They want to protect themselves from what they see as government attacks." Officials are hoping Atlanta will not see other scares in the weeks ahead. But schedules are fraught...
...resegregation is indeed the wave of the future, then the future can be glimpsed in Norfolk, Virginia. Norfolk won federal court approval of a return to neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block the new plan because it would immediately render 10 elementary schools, many of them serving housing projects, 100% black. Sociologist David Armor, retained as an expert witness by the school board, predicted that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance...