Word: dawned
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...Story of Elian, but also Senate majority leader Trent Lott and Judiciary Committee chairman Orrin Hatch. Undeterred by George W. Bush's lack of enthusiasm for such partisan theatrics, Lott boasted he would get to the bottom of where the obviously hopeless negotiations stood at the time of the dawn raid. And House majority whip Tom DeLay went ballistic over the government's "jackbooted thugs." He was far more publicly incensed by U.S. marshals using guns to forestall the threatened violence of the Miami crowd than he ever was over guns used by children to slaughter their classmates...
What makes a primate species start breeding more like bunnies than bonobos? Hrdy points to that great watershed of prehistory, the dawn of the Neolithic era, with the invention of agriculture, about 10,000 years ago. For one thing, the changing diet allowed girls to fatten up for puberty earlier and wean their babies faster, thus bearing more babies per lifetime. Men began to define land and animals as property and sources of prestige, it would seem, and women as chattel to be fought over...
...plane and explained that they were flying to Washington; agents showed him a map of the plane's route, then gave him a watch and showed him how much time would pass before he would see his father. They raised the window shades and showed him the dawn sky. "He became completely enthralled in the pretty colors," said an INS official. Elian spent most of the flight sitting in Mills' lap; for a while, he even slept...
...said she had to prepare for the worst: that there might be guns in the house, or in the crowds outside; that old women would throw themselves in front of federal vehicles; that dump trucks filled with gravel would block intersections. The INS team wanted to go in before dawn, but Reno worried about the image of a nighttime raid. So grim was the picture the Attorney General was painting, it appeared to the aides that she would prefer to wait some more...
...dawn of the 21st century, with technology evolving at an ever increasing rate, many people mistakenly believe the natural world has nothing left to offer us in the way of new medicines. This could not be further from the truth. Mother Nature has been creating weird and wonderful chemicals for more than 3 billion years, and we're only beginning to sift through these hidden treasures. New technologies enable us to find, analyze and manipulate molecules as never before. While today's laboratory scientists can synthesize new molecules from scratch at a pace unimaginable just a few decades back, promising...