Word: attachment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shuttle is bound for a Sunday rendezvous with the first component of the controversial and costly space station, which was launched earlier by the Russians. The crew of Endeavour will try to attach a connecting passageway to that first piece. "When it happens it will be an engineering, logistical and administrative achievement," says Kluger, "but successfully constructing the station will be the same kind of achievement as sitting on a flagpole or swallowing goldfish." The space station program is eating up scarce space funding, and Kluger maintains the money would be better spent on unmanned space exploration and manned scientific...
...home videomaker. It's a Swiss Army Knife kind of thing, with a video and graphics accelerator (which makes everything from spreadsheets to games look better on your monitor), 2-D and 3-D accelerator, and even a TV tuner (you can watch television on your PC if you attach your cable). Best of all, it has a chip that quickly compresses video using the high-quality MJPEG format, making editing a snap...
...spot. Look for a subtle but rapid change as the normal curves of fat that define the female form melt away. Longtime steroid users may lose their breasts entirely. Watch too for torn connective tissues. Steroids often cause muscles to outgrow and injure the tendons and ligaments that attach them to the bone...
...Democrats are using an old gambit that couldn't save John McCain's last effort -- campaign finance reform -- but may well work this time around: threatening to attach the tobacco bill as an amendment to every piece of legislation that Lott touches. "The Republicans are under some pressure to keep the bill alive because they're in charge," says TIME congressional correspondent John Dickerson. "They don't want to be a do-nothing Congress, and they don't want to get tagged with a pro-tobacco label." So they budged, and both Daschle and the White House seem...
...infected with the disease. Now endemic throughout the Northeast as well as parts of the Midwest and the West Coast, Lyme disease is caused by a corkscrew-shaped bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi. It is spread by the bite of ticks that usually live on mice and deer but also attach themselves to other warm-blooded creatures, including people. Typically, within a month of a bite, a large, bull's-eye rash shows up at the site, accompanied by chills, fever, headache and painful joints. Untreated, the infection may eventually lead to severe arthritis, facial palsy and irregular heartbeat. Deaths, however...