Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white society. "I've learned to examine that a little more closely," he says. The deep interest remains, however, and he plans two more novels about the African diaspora, one set in 17th century Africa, the other in contemporary Liberia. For now, he's delighted with the Academy Award fuss about The Sweet Hereafter (in which he appears briefly as a local doctor). Director Egoyan, with whom he worked for two years advising on the script, overflows with praise: "One of the greatest living novelists." That may be gratifying, but Banks knows there's still more work...
...frozen for more than eight years. "It's no big deal," said Dr. Alan DeCherney, UCLA's chief of obstetrics and gynecology, who noted that because fertility clinics have been working with frozen human embryos since 1984, other physicians may well have transferred even older ones without making a fuss...
...weeks later, Hultin was on his way--one 73-year-old man with a sleeping bag, a carry-on bag and two duffels full of equipment. He traveled solo and avoided publicity so as not to raise too much fuss among Brevig's villagers. By the afternoon of Aug. 20, he and a local crew had begun digging, and they eventually produced a trench 6 ft. wide, 27 ft. long and 7 ft. deep. Hultin came across several bare skeletons before he hit pay dirt: the well-preserved body of a 30-year-old woman so obese that...
...result is that journalists may be able to go back to the practice of not reporting such matters, on the legitimate ground that people really don't seem to care. For better or worse, it seems to be the journalists who are making way too much of a Victorian fuss about the President's alleged misbehavior and the rest of the citizenry who are taking it all in stride and keeping it in perspective...
...inevitable possibility. To sound a frantic alarm at this late date smacks of Chicken Little. Let's get on with it. Let's figure out how to do cloning rationally and cautiously. In a hundred years, people, or at least our cloned descendants, will wonder what all the fuss was about. GEORGE HILLOW Newport News...