Word: backwardness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...three departed. The police botched the job. When they pounced, they grabbed Hogefeld and Steinmetz, believing him to be Grams. Instead of fleeing, though, Grams drew a pistol from his waistband and opened fire. One officer was wounded; a second fell dead. Officers saw Grams "suddenly fall backward" from the station platform onto track 4. A medical team tried to treat his wounds as Grams lay sprawled across the ties, but he died on the spot from a head wound...
...absence of some sweeping new epidemic, a population boom or a technological leap backward, these pressures are likely to continue...
...list. "Because of the shape of the face and the anatomy, lying on the tummy does not allow the jaw to fall forward as it does in an adult," says British pediatrician Peter Fleming, who has studied sleeping position for more than a decade. "It pushes the jaw slightly backward, and with a huge tongue and small airways, that may actually contribute to airway obstruction." Babies also sleep more deeply on their stomach than on their back and take longer to awaken -- perhaps fatally longer -- if something goes wrong physiologically. Other theories suggest that babies who sleep on their stomach...
Derderian sees the move to co-ed classes for Harvard and Radcliffe as a step backward in some ways. "Mixing up the sexes got in the way of women's learning to be their own person and training their leadership," she says. "The men diverted their attention from their studies...
...some Radcliffe alumnae, the move to co-ed classes was a step backward, in many ways. cliffe, even in terms of library access. "We had one room not much larger than a telephone booth in Widener, and they brought books to us," she says. "We couldn't just wander around...