Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed like a good idea to have a sculpture that students could not simply avoid," said Williamson. "Adam's work certainly stands out and will force people to confront it whenever they walk through the courtyard...
...telephone is a commonplace item on a much-wired planet. The idea of being able to throw your voice around the world and in a few seconds hit precisely the ear you wanted among all the globe's 10 billion ears has lost its capacity to surprise. But the telephone has strange powers. The sudden little Ice Age that descended upon AT&T last week may have given some Americans, in an almost subliminal way, a dose of the metaphysical spooks...
...Corn stoves? Just to be sure this is a good idea, I called Amory Lovins, who quit Harvard after his sophomore year ("I was paying Harvard, so I felt Harvard should let me study what I wanted") and has since written twelve books, garnered five honorary degrees and become a world leader in energy conservation and research. Not that I was going to let any of that damp my enthusiasm for corn stoves...
Most West Germans dismiss the idea of reclaiming their former territories. But revanchist organizations, which include some of the survivors of the Germans who left the east, continue to use the issue as a political weapon. Hartmut Koschyk, head of the 2 million-member Association of Expellees, suggests that a "compromise" with Poland could work out a border "territorially in the middle...
...Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration fear that the A.H.A. seal may foster simplistic notions about foods and imply some therapeutic benefit from specific brands. The USDA has banned use of the seal on meat products, including frozen dinners and entrees. "The program would have set up the idea of good foods and bad foods, and there is no scientific support for that," says Lester Crawford of the USDA. "There are good diets and bad diets...