Word: hoping
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...duty at LIFE. (There has been, through the years, a great deal of back and forth between the magazines, with managing editors, photographers, reporters and mailroom clerks shuttling between elevator banks and mastheads with regularity and ease.) If the TIME sensibility informs the structure of the issue, we hope you will agree that the Life perspective--a picture really is worth a thousand words--flavors each page...
...separation never left him. He survived World War II, as he had survived the Depression and the alienation of his youth, but the only world that had ever mattered to him - the secure home his parents had vouchsafed him - was gone, and for a time he had no hope for the future. His mother's death came to stand not only for her removal from his life, which would have been a cataclysm by itself, but also, because of the war, for Schulz's total separation from childhood and home. He would refer to it as a "loss from which...
...Eight years later, Saddam Hussein is exactly where Messrs. Cheney and Powell left him - although it's generally agreed that his grip on power is probably a lot stronger now. Despite U.S. funding of Iraqi opposition activity, it's generally agreed that the best hope for ousting Saddam remains his health. International sanctions against Iraq are collapsing because European and moderate Arab governments don't believe they're having any positive effect. At the same time, the U.N. arms inspection team is no longer on the ground, which means that nobody quite knows what Saddam?s scientists may be cooking...
...week after Christmas, and all through the retail sector, businesses hope that something a little more is stirring. Businesses, in fact, are hoping that the 2000 holiday shopping season isn't over - but that it's just getting ready for its second...
...genome seems to carry amazingly detailed evidence of our evolutionary history, including traces of viruses that long ago invaded our DNA and became a permanent part of us. Says Smith: "We hope over the years to get a clear picture of how our genome was put together and even see where it might be going." Not just how, but when. For example, the genome evidently contains a molecular clock in the form of sequences of letters that are repeated between the genes and have mutated over time. The rate of these changes could serve to time-stamp specific traits...