Word: sharp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question of whether to trumpet or downplay one's Harvard ties when running for office comes up "all the time," according to Professor Philip R. Sharp of the John F. Kennedy School of Government...
...control, it's about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Rock cuts through the b.s. Suddenly we wake up, like Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, and find ourselves in a tub of goo with robots ruling the world. "Rock says everything you want to say but that you're not quite sharp or smart enough to think of yourself," says MTV president Judy McGrath, who signed him up to act as host of this week's MTV Video Music Awards, to be held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. "Once you hear him, you say, 'Exactly...
...problem. Moreover, we learn, he left two other children at an early age. When he returns to find his son facing prison, we see a stark negative of the nurturing idyll he and Karen have created. Yet Bill comes off as a devoted, likable father and husband who offers sharp insights on race...
...number of other teams in what is starting to look like OSETI mania. At Princeton, physicist David T. Wilkinson will soon begin surveying nearby stars with a detector similar to Horowitz's. At the University of California, Berkeley, extrasolar-planet hunter Geoff Marcy is re-examining his data for sharp spectral lines that might indicate a continuous beam of light intended as a low-power signal. Another Berkeley team, led by SETI veteran Dan Werthimer, is looking for short, powerful laser bursts in a series of automated observations of 2,500 nearby stars. Later he plans to turn to invisible...
Remember "the big disease with the little name"? Well, the bad news is that the sharp decline in deaths from AIDS that began two years ago, occasioned by powerful new drugs, has been cut in half. Some patients have struggled to get access to the drugs; others haven?t maintained the rigorous discipline required to maintain complicated daily dosing schedules of a cocktail of different pharmaceuticals; and even in many cases where the drugs have been properly administered, the virus often has proved more resilient than the medicine. AIDS researchers, doctors and activists gathered Monday in Atlanta for the National...