Word: 1990s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that once defined upper-middle-class status. Today's luxury buyers, guided by the Information Age, are less extravagant, more practical and technologically sharper. "The status symbol used to be 'I've got money,'" says Jim Press, general manager of Toyota Motor Sales USA. "But here in the late 1990s, it's 'I've got good taste.' The days of conspicuous consumption are gone...
Bulls fans want to know whether their team is going to contend for a seventh championship in the 1990s or a lottery pick in June's draft. The NBA wants to know if Jordan will save the league once again, this time from post-lockout apathy...
...Elizabeth clinical trial is one of some 300 similar types of procedures being performed today on more than 3,000 patients around the world. These numbers reflect a growing optimism that gene therapy, a medical discipline that emerged with great fanfare in the early 1990s but fell out of favor during its adolescence, is finally coming of age. "Twenty years from now gene therapy will have revolutionized the practice of medicine," predicts Dr. W. French Anderson, director of gene therapy at the University of Southern California medical school, who is perhaps the most outspoken champion of this slowly maturing medical...
...could the same be done directly to cells within the human body? "That's where we hit the wall in the early 1990s," recalls Dr. James Wilson, director of the Institute for Human Gene Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. One problem was that the body's immune system regarded the viral carriers as foreign invaders, and its response caused inflammation and swelling at the injection site. The antibodies that developed in response to the virus caused further difficulties. "In a very unfortunate turn of events," Wilson explains, "the patients would become immune against the therapy...
...having the wicked stepmother critique Cinderella. What were you expecting from a noted anti-Disney author like Schickel? Disney, a man who made us laugh, who was called "Uncle" by generations of American children, who built an empire with his brother and revolutionized corporate America (Where would the 1990s be without synergy or branding?), deserved better. JOSH P. EDWARDS Naples, Maine