Word: wildness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...animal is more prized than China's giant panda, a national symbol. Only about 1,000 remain in the wild, largely because of the disappearance of their bamboo grazing grounds and their limited ability to adapt to change. But natural dangers have been surpassed by human ones. Lured by the huge prices that pandas bring -- from $5,000 to $112,000 in a country where the average monthly wage is $29 -- poachers are closing in on this rare animal, tracking it down even in China's nature preserves. During the course of her travels, the WWF investigator saw two panda...
...evening's losers who provided the award season's biggest flap. Gerard Depardieu, who was nominated for Best Actor for Cyrano de Bergerac, was a no- show at the ceremony. Even so, he was at the center of a fire storm over comments about his wild days as a youth...
...question has dimensions that are both social and personal. In Freudian terms, the law is supposed to perform the function of the superego, policing the wild and violent id. The Beirut principle goes to work when the id takes over from the superego and puts on a blue uniform, when authority goes wild...
...from the individual. It has its appetites and impulses, its voice, its collective will and emotions and personality. It has a mind of its own that can be frightening and inexplicable, like a domesticated animal, a pit bull or rottweiler, that may turn unpredictably vicious, attacking the children, doing wild-animal things no one could foresee...
What might have been a methodical, scientific quest has turned into a wild crapshoot. In more than 60 laboratories around the world, researchers are working with at least 40 different concoctions in pursuit of one of medicine's most urgent goals: the development of an AIDS vaccine. Any team that succeeds will reap fame, fortune and the satisfaction of possibly wiping out a disease that ranks among the deadliest scourges ever to afflict humanity...