Word: shells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fraction of the federal budget, around 3%. Reform designed to promote work, not dependence -- combining earned-income tax credit and measures to promote, or at least not penalize, savings -- would cost more, no question. Yet there is good reason to think that Americans, who are skeptical of handouts, will shell out more if it will be spent in ways they approve of. As sociologist Christopher Jencks writes, "Americans love to help people who are trying to help themselves." Is this liberal? Conservative? Both...
...Depression. In the final stages of the cold war, the U.S. became a debtor nation. A noncombatant like Japan seemed more the beneficiary of America's struggle than was the nominal victor. The hard question no one in the U.S. dared raise was whether, in bringing down the shell of the U.S.S.R., this country had been hollowing itself out economically. Many have wondered why the cold war's end has brought so little celebration. Was the U.S. victory like Muhammad Ali's over George Frazier in Manila, where the fighters burnt out their internal . circuits in the general conflagration...
...What is a right to choose when the weakest in our society don't have access to that right? Only the shell of Roe v. Wade remains," Enfield said...
...America. Settlers in the Ayacucho region of the Andes had domesticated guinea pigs and llamas by the time Iceman lived, and farmed potatoes, squash, beans and corn. Along the coastal desert of what is now northern Chile, the Chinchorro used woven fishing nets and hooks made of cactus thorns, shell and bone to harvest a rich diet from the sea. The Chinchorro, who were savvy hunters, developed elaborate mummification techniques some 2,500 years before the Egyptians, probably as a sacrament in ancestor worship. After removing internal organs and drying the cavf mdavers, they stuffed the remains with feathers, grass...
Opening act Luna2 tailored their act for the Paradise crowd--the set they played was less poppy than their recent appearance at the Hatch Shell opening for They Might Be Giants. Their live performance of WFNX favorite "Anesthesia" and cover of Beat Happening's "Indian Summer" were professional, but uninspiring. There is an unshakable sense that Luna2 has yet to find a sound of their...