Word: worded
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Everybody talks about the weather, goes the saying (often wrongly attributed to Mark Twain), but nobody does anything about it. The word from scientists is that whoever said this was wrong. All of us, as we go about the mundane business of existence, are helping change the weather and every other aspect of life on this fair planet: Los Angelenos whipping their sunny basin into a brown blur on the way to work every morning; South Americans burning and cutting their way through the rain forest in search of a better life; a billion Chinese, their smokestacks belching black coal...
...researchers from the University of California at San Francisco announced that, in test tubes at least, Compound Q could kill HIV-infected cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The substance quickly found its way into the U.S. and to desperate AIDS patients, who administered the drug on their own. "Word was out," says Dr. Alan Levin, medical director of the Project Inform trials in San Francisco. "People started getting it and injecting themselves in their kitchens...
Willem, influenced by the less strident opinions of his mother's family, began veering leftward while editing a Calvinist monthly, Word and Deed, in the mid-1950s. "I gained this insight that apartheid is not a just dispensation, not a solution for South Africa, not founded in morality, not common sense," he recalls. He began speaking out against such National Party measures for entrenching apartheid as the Group Areas Act, the Population Registration Act and the move to give blacks voting rights in so-called black homelands rather than in South Africa proper. He has committed what many Afrikaners consider...
Slovenia (pop. 2.1 million), one of the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia, provided a reminder last week of why the word Balkanization is a synonym for divisiveness. Meeting in the capital of Ljubljana, the republic's parliament overwhelmingly passed a constitutional amendment allowing Slovenia to secede from the Yugoslav federation. Though a split is not imminent, the move was seen as insurance for the Slovenes against growing Serbian nationalism. Slovenia, which shares borders with Italy and Austria, boasts the nation's most prosperous economy. But it is dependent on raw materials from the rest...
Indeed the best word one could use to describe Harvard's play in the first two sets is "intimidating." The Crimson was scrapping for every dig, setting well and spiking the ball past the outstretched arms of frustrated Lowell forwards. It seemed that there was no way Harvard could lose...