Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...turn the clock over so that you can't see it; after a while, you begin to fear the light that you know will come streaming in the window far too soon. You lie in bed, alternately staring at the ceiling and the insides of your eyelids, trying to remember what someone once told you when you had trouble sleeping as a child, to pretend that you are lying on a raft on the ocean or that you are floating on a cloud. You start thinking about balancing on a cloud and what clouds are made of and whether...
...before! Not only that, but you feel more alert than ever; when you look around at the buildings outside, everything appears incredibly sharp and focused, and the voices of the people around you sound remarkably loud and distinct. Later in the day during your exam, perhaps you begin examining ordinary objects as if they were quite extraordinary, noticing with tremendous interest the edges of the seat in front of you or the chew-marks on your pencil. But by noon, people are laughing at you at lunch as you contemplate your fork, completely oblivious to anything they've said...
AUSTIN: In Texas, everything's bigger. Indeed, at around $14.5 billion, the state's settlement with Big Tobacco ? set to be announced Friday, the day the trial was scheduled to begin ? is the largest yet. But it should be no surprise that the lawyers are walking tallest of all: They've gleaned a whopping $2.18 billion out of that total for their fees...
...many of them containing permethrin, the most widely used of the lice-killing chemicals called synthetic pyrethroids. In recent years, however, the frequency of infestations has increased, and ever greater numbers of children are becoming reinfested within days of treatment. All this has led health officials and researchers to begin worrying about the emergence of a resistant strain of the insect, impervious to permethrin...
...PEN/THE LIBRARY The first aired 10/2/91, the second 10/16/91. In these early episodes from the third season, fans begin to see that there is a Seinfeld universe, inhabited by odd relatives and weirdos and exaggeratos, governed by the law of unintended consequences. Good deeds not only go unrewarded, they are in fact punished...