Word: exception
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...This is a red squirrel like all other red squirrels in America, except they are genetically different due to their isolation on the mountain for 10,000 years," he says...
Rhodes, 53, is an author whose breakthrough book was the 1988 Pulitzer- prizewinning The Making of the Atomic Bomb. The connection between events leading to Los Alamos and an obscure domestic tragedy in Kansas City is not readily apparent -- except to the author. Each story, writes Rhodes, "focuses on one or several men of character who confront violence, resist it or endure it and discover beyond its inhumanity a narrow margin of hope...
...most ubiquitous and onomatopoetic toy in 20 years. That's how long ago the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the original clackers, which were often made of ceramic. Connected by ropes, they sometimes shattered on impact. But the 1990s model is made entirely of plastic and is apparently harmless -- except to the sanity of adults. (Retail prices: $1.50 to $5.) One company to thank for this is Classic Items of Chicago. It has sold 2.5 million of its version, the Klika, since April. A Seattle company, Fascinations Toys and Gifts, has sold 900,000 of its Newton...
Hornstein actually had no campaign to speak of. He did not lobby representatives, except to try to persuade eventual candidate Jonathan D. Unger '92 to run, which would have relieved him of the burden of running himself, he says...
...front. But it does not deliver as well in domestic policy, where myriad officials, interest groups and ordinary citizens demand to have their say, both before any proposed solution is made public and afterward. When Bush tries to communicate with a TV audience, he often lacks confidence. More important, except when he is campaigning for himself, Bush shrinks from framing options in a stark and persuasive manner that can force people to make a choice. He often speaks of using the "bully pulpit" to get his way, but to him it means little more than "telling people how deeply...