Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHAT'S MY LYME? Doctors have isolated an antibody in spinal fluid that allows them to quickly detect if Lyme bacteria have spread from the site of the bite to the nervous system. Treated early, Lyme disease is easy to cure...
LARRY ELLISON Oracle boss gets on Apple's board without taking a bite. (But he's in the tent with his archrival, Gates...
...attack by a great white, on a 400-lb. elephant seal. The shark rose almost entirely out of the water, with the massive seal in its jaws. "It was stunning," he recalls. "The shark ambushed the seal, then came back several times to take three or four bites out of it. I had never seen anything like it." Since then Klimley has analyzed more than 130 videotaped white-shark attacks. All seem to follow a pattern. The powerful first bite usually takes place underwater, and the first sign of an attack is often a blood slick on the surface. Within...
That purpose does not include the deliberate consumption of humans--another misconception spread by Jaws. Great whites, most experts believe, prefer high-fat prey because fat is packed with calories. People are too scrawny, which is why, after taking a first bite--perhaps because a human, especially one wearing a black wet suit and flippers, looks something like a seal--a great white will usually turn up its nose at whatever remains. Most other shark attacks are probably also cases of mistaken identity: a swimmer's flapping feet and hands may look like the movements of a fish darting through...
...Make It Snappy," Charles Krauthammer praises the sound bite [ESSAY, July 21], but the problem is that most such short phrases lack substance and foundation. And the difficulty with 5-, 10- or 20-minute speeches is that most of them consist of a series of sound bites, equally lacking in substance and foundation. The sound bite has the potential to attract attention and elicit support. However, it is inadequate to the task of intellectual persuasion, the missing ingredient of modern public discourse. FRANK S. KOPPELMAN Evanston...