Word: quests
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...didn't just want to expand, and they didn't just shirk their responsibility for the city-wide homelessness problem. In their quest for the four streets, MIT permitted what amounted to a moral civil war between the poor and middle-class residents of Central Square and the rest of the city...
...past two years, project historian Rev. Jeffrey L. Brown and scholarly advisor Henry Louis Gates Jr., DuBois professor of the humanities and chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department, have aided this quest for historical recognition. Moore of Cambridge Discovery and Sullivan of the Cambridge Historical Commission executed the details and physical aspects of the project...
...THEIR QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE, SCIENTISTS WILL take advantage of anything that's helpful, even a nuclear blast. Studies of the shock waves given off by a Chinese .66-megaton nuclear test have revealed a "continent" 2,000 miles underground, at the boundary between the molten iron of the planet's core and the molten rock just above it. The word continent is used loosely; what two scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey found was a region 200 miles across and 80 miles deep that is denser than surrounding regions. The implication: the core-mantle boundary may be as complex...
Equally noteworthy has been Mobutu's quest for sexual favors among the wives of political associates. "The President enjoys an almost feudal droit du seigneur," explains a former Cabinet minister. "He uses sex as a tool to dominate the men around him. You get money or a Mercedes-Benz, and he takes your wife and you work for him." Says a former longtime resident of Gbadolite: "The complaints of those he has cuckolded only add to his mystique as a virile and powerful ruler...
...this world." But as a child aching for love, even from those who can abuse his trust, he resembles most other people on earth. And in daring to do battle without the armor of guile, he is something else old-fashioned: a hero on an impossible quest for innocence...