Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What he will get is some hard-won recognition for having single-handedly created the field of angiogenesis. Back in the 1970s, when conventional wisdom among cancer researchers was that most tumors are caused by viruses, Folkman was pursuing his own, very different insight. He noticed that when cancer cells are still tiny--only a millimeter or two across--they don't need any blood vessels to survive. In order to grow to life-threatening size, however, they need blood. And they get that blood by persuading nearby capillaries to reach out and touch them...
...most noted comedies--The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, M*A*S*H*--never made it to No. 1, while plenty of junk did ascend to that pinnacle. As fun as it would be to go against the conventional, middlebrow wisdom and say The Beverly Hillbillies possessed a sly, Twain-like wit, recent viewings confirm that it was as crude as everyone has always said. The Happy Days-Laverne and Shirley era is another sorry one. So it could be argued on behalf of Seinfeld that it has combined quality and popularity...
...cold feet? Because in the past four years, the California G.O.P. has undergone something of a revolution. In 1994, conventional wisdom in the Golden State held that Latinos didn't vote and that taking on immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, was a political gold mine. Voters passed Proposition 187, which sought to cut off illegal aliens' benefits. Governor Pete Wilson won re-election with ads showing grainy figures scurrying across the southern border, and some suspected that he could ride the issue all the way to the White House...
SERMONS: BIBLICAL WISDOM FOR DAILY LIVING...
...book does more than provide a chuckle. It is Gomes' attempt to contextualize the Bible for modern day life, or what he refers to as "awakening a sense of the divine" in a peculiar mix of Memorial Church's parishioners that includes people who seek biblical wisdom and people who seek his star-preacher attraction. For Gomes, the bible contains the "eternal truths that...have the capacity to speak to our ever evolving set of our circumstances." His book adapts and interprets these truths for all parishioners. And he adds the welcomed reassurance that "We have no right to expect...