Word: blower
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kilter trinkets and prankish paraphernalia like op-art jewelry, prism eyeglasses and fluorescent body paint. "A trip toy is something that will catch people's attention and make them smile," says Niles Peacock, who attends raves with a ball-point pen that transforms into a tiny soap-bubble blower. "The whole purpose is amusement...
...greenhouse cost $10,000, but Doug figures that he has saved that much, easy. "Some people say you have to be a little crazy to build a house in New England without a furnace, but once you make that leap of faith, you need no blower, no ducts, no radiators. You start 5000 dollars ahead...
...after being arrested by the FBI for using his DIA cover name, Thomas Leavy, on a passport application. Coleman claims that the DIA instructed him to do this. "But such trumped-up charges are frequently used to keep spooks quiet," says A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a Pentagon whistle-blower and a director of the Fund for Constitutional Government in Washington, which has been looking into Coleman's case...
...Nobel laureate David Baltimore's stubborn refusal to concede that data reported by a former M.I.T. colleague in an immunology paper Baltimore had co- signed was fraudulent, and the shoddy treatment of the whistle blower who spotted the fraud aroused public suspicion about scientific integrity. Worse, from the viewpoint of scientists, it brought about an investigation by Michigan Democrat John Dingell's House subcommittee and fears of more federal supervision of science. By the time Baltimore finally apologized for his role in the affair, the damage to science's image had been done...