Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreign invasion is in full swing. American consumerism is fast consuming Moscow's population. The perestroika-era novelty of Gorbachev sneaking McDonald's and Pepsi through the gates to a hungry population has begot a deluge of American products. Today, the area behind the Kremlin looks quite a bit like Times Square. Sanyo and Coca-Cola signs light up the night sky. Russians chow down at a McDonald's only a few blocks from the Kremlin, while a Pizza Hut a few blocks further down Tverskaya Boulevard faces a statue of Pushkin, Russia's national poet...
...face showmanship. In America, we seem to have moved away from glitziness to an age of smug, oblique advertising. American advertisements do not even bother to show the product anymore. Rather, Madison Avenue delivers an inexplicable barrage of post-MTV cuts and images. In Moscow, the advertising is every bit as conspicuous as the consumption. Opulence is in. The endless parade of television ads for health products, from Head & Shoulders to Centrum to Trojans to breast enlargements, shows in painstakingly detailed diagrams exactly how beautiful and healthy these products can make you. If, that is, you can show them...
...findings underscore how rapidly HIV can adapt to its surroundings, making it devilishly difficult to develop effective vaccines. No one knows how many more subtypes of HIV will sprout in the next 40 years, but chances are they will be every bit as lethal as the ones we see today, if not more...
...poster girl of Nagano will almost certainly be a teenage figure skater not noted for her nose rings. Mike Moran, an assistant executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, recalls that a renegade stance is as old as skiers Billy Kidd and Spider Sabich: "Those guys had every bit of the attitude we now attribute to Generation X. What has changed is society...
...gear. "It's amazing," marveled Shiva Keshavan, 16, the Indian luger, of the sport he took up 18 months ago. "I go faster than most cars do." Jennifer Rodriguez, a Miami speed skater with a pierced navel and a pierced-tongue speed-skating boyfriend, confesses, "Deep down, a little bit of everybody, no matter how rebellious you are, wants to go to the Olympics and just enjoy the magic...