Word: guideposts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Council, in its present state, is really a poor excuse for student government. Through no fault of its own (although its petty scandals and pontificating members do nothing to help), the council is nothing more than a glorified dance committee. (And if the word on the street is a guidepost at all, that title may soon be retracted--the U.C. sponsored Gala Ball is being called a flop-in-the-making, an event bringing strapless dresses and the frigid outdoors together for the first time...
...pace has swiftly accelerated. Biotech companies are scrambling to capitalize on sticky science. "Thousands of papers are coming out. It's crazy, absolutely crazy," exults Jean Paul Thiery, director of research for the French National Center of Scientific Research. The excitement serves as a reminder that the best guidepost for research may be what it has always been: the persistent pull of curiosity and the tenacity of scientists who ignore fashion and stick with...