Word: newton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin with, it's a gross misconception to claim that the Enlightenment was the work of writers. Writers might have advertised and propagated it, but the Enlightenment, like every single major transformation in history, was the work of scientists. It was the work of Descartes and Galileo and Newton and Leibniz and various French mathematicians whose last names begin with "L" (Laplace and Lagrange come to mind). It was they who showed that the "cold reason" of a science anchored in mathematics was capable of describing and predicting the workings of the universe with a precision previously undreamed...
...Newton native, Fontecchio, 36, was an art student before he began to do freelance ice sculpting. He joined Brookline Ice in 1983 at the urging of his brother...
Throughout the decades, fashion has been one of the gym's greatest attractions. Olivia Newton John started the fitness-look craze with her music video "Let's Get Physical" and the '80s flick "Flashdance" fed fuel to the fashion fire. While leg warmers and plastic pants rarely serve any functional purpose today, these antiquated workout staples have been replaced by a new type of Southern California gym couture--namely peroxide-tinted hair, G-string leotards and plastic breasts and pectoral muscles. I find the exponentially enlarged chests most fascinating about the gym, but amazingly enough, taut lycra seems...
...more seasons. After six years of playing nurse Carol Hathaway, Margulies is intent on pursuing her film career. "We wish her well and know that she will be successful in all her endeavors," said ER executive producer John Wells. Perhaps Wells hasn't seen The Newton Boys, Margulies' last film, which earned a total of $10 million, or less than half of $27 million...
...paper had agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues seemed like a dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Reporter Jim Newton, whose beat includes Mayor Richard Riordan's office, explains in layman's terms, "If I had a financial arrangement with Mayor Riordan and wrote about him, I'd be fired. It's a conflict of interest...