Word: shorting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...challenge is far greater. Working alongside a President she outspokenly disagrees with, she has been the leader in seeking a negotiated agreement with Moscow to give Lithuania its independence. An economist for much of her 47 years, Prunskiene has become Lithuania's voice of reason. She made the short leap from economics to politics two years ago when she helped found Sajudis, the independence movement. "I was very unhappy seeing what should be done but was not done," she says. From the beginning she has reached out for Western expertise and advice...
Health concerns that primarily affect women get particularly short shrift in the research community, many doctors say. Breast cancer, for example, has doubled in incidence since 1960 and is now killing 44,000 women each year. Yet last year the NIH spent just $77 million studying the ailment, including only $16 million on basic research. Two years ago, the NIH halted a major study on breast cancer and low-fat diets because of cost considerations. "I can't believe that decision," says Dr. Mary Guinan, assistant director for science at the Centers for Disease Control. "If we could tell women...
...conclusion: "That means they are doing laundry. They understand that washing machines eat socks." In the '90s these changes are amplified on the nightclub circuit, where 20% of the comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario of Los Angeles' Improv comedy club, "stand-up was traditionally a white male enclave. But today there are no restrictions. Women are able...
...committee is also sponsoring a series of staged humorous dining hall performance about recycling. Conceived by Lee B. Wexler '92, Dunster House's recycling chair, and Samuel Newell '92, the short act features a dialogue between and environmentalist and "Sam," a lumberjack who threatens to cut down various college house trees...
Harvard was forced to learn the hard way this year. Short mental lapses often hurt the Crimson, and disappointing one-goal losses, particularly the 1-0 overtime defeat at the feet of class talented Boston College squad, dampened an already frustrating season...