Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Agency to Cabinet-level status, nor has it come through with an adequate plan to protect the threatened spotted owl. Regarding global issues, the Administration temporizes on threats to the atmosphere and lags in, rather than leads, efforts to deal with dangers to the land and oceans. Says Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee: "1990 was a year of decision for the environment, but no & decisions were made...
...biggest problem is the process," said Albert Carnesale, academic dean at the Kennedy School, who appeared on a panel of three school officials who met to evaluate the role of a newly created affirmative action committee...
...artists who make other artists famous. A striking case in point, in America, was Albert Pinkham Ryder. This somewhat reclusive visionary was born in 1847; grew up in the whaling town of New Bedford, Mass.; studied in New York City; spent most of his working life there and died in 1917. As far as is known, he painted fewer than 200 works. Yet a succession of American artists has looked up to him as a sage, a holy man: the native prophet who linked tradition to modernism...
...keep blood sugar within a narrow range (60 mg to 120 mg per deciliter of blood), those with diabetes frequently boast levels three times as high. Just how excess sugar causes damage remains a topic of debate. One plausible mechanism has been suggested by Dr. Michael Brownlee, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Glucose, Brownlee observes, is chemically active, combining with proteins in the blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like a splinter lodged in a foot, this superglue is a source...
...Albert Pinkham Ryder had visionary gifts but also, a new show reveals, feeble draftsmanship, overblown poeticism and techniques that have caused his canvases to deteriorate disastrously...