Word: gettingness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Any environmentalist can reel off a long list of grievous problems confronting the planet -- from acid rain and global warming to the destruction of tropical rain forests. The hard part is getting people to do something about them. Last week two fresh ideas for encouraging environmental activism were proposed, one...
There is all the difference in the world between having a baby . . . and getting a baby. So much has changed in U.S. society in the past generation -- legal abortion, the growing acceptance of single motherhood, new concerns about infertility -- that people looking to become parents face a most intricate enterprise...
TELEVISION: POSTSEASON BASEBALL. If Vin Scully and Tony Kubek get misty eyed in the late innings this week and next, don't be surprised. NBC's coverage of the 1989 play-offs marks the end of an era. TV's premier baseball network is being sent to the showers. Indeed...
Hope flashed through the nation's AIDS community last April, when researchers from the University of California at San Francisco announced that, in test tubes at least, Compound Q could kill HIV-infected cells while leaving healthy cells unaffected. The substance quickly found its way into the U.S. and to...
Velazquez's life was even, and little is known about its details. It looks quite seamless compared with the struggles of Spain's other archetypal painter, Goya -- a steadily mounting curve of recognition and respect, unmarred by scandal or alienation (although he did father one bastard in Rome). Born in...