Word: boomerang
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...raise colonies of dangerous microbes. Delivering them is much harder, as the technologically savvy extremist Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo learned in the early 1990s when it tried to spread botulism in the streets of Tokyo before finally settling on sarin gas. Moreover, germ weapons have a tendency to boomerang, as gas attacks often did during World War I when winds suddenly shifted. Highly infectious agents also are difficult to handle, a risk underscored by at least one major anthrax accident in the Soviet biowarfare program that killed scores of Russians--though that wouldn't stop the suicidally minded. And then...
THINK TWICE BEFORE YOU MEDDLE IN YOUR CHILD'S SOCIAL LIFE Most kids wince at the idea that a parent will get involved in their dealings with friends and classmates. They're afraid that the intervention will boomerang. They don't trust a parent to catch the subtleties of the situation. And for good reason, say the authors. "Things we try to do often backfire, making things worse for a child." What can a parent do? Listen sympathetically, stay confident and remember the power of your love for your child...
...growing Game Show Network revives the leisure-suited splendor of Match Game and Tattle Tales. Thanks to cable's ravenous maw for content, more diverse and complex shows are entering the rerun canon. Cartoon Network (which, like TIME, is owned by AOL Time Warner) not only spun off the Boomerang channel of old cartoons for nostalgic adults (Get it? Boomerang?) but also inspired a heated was-Bugs-Bunny-racist debate last month when it excised anti-Japanese World War II-era shorts from a Bugs marathon. One-season wonders like My So-Called Life and Action have found second lives...
...more like seeing God through dirty Coke-bottle glasses: the satellite saw lumps but couldn't determine much about them. In April, though, scientists offered up much sharper images from a balloon-borne experiment called BOOMERANG (Balloon Observations of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation and Geophysics), which lofted instruments into the Antarctic stratosphere; from another named MAXIMA (Millimeter Anisotropy Experiment Imaging Array, which did the same over the U.S.); and from a microwave telescope on the ground at the South Pole, called DASI (Degree Angular Scale Interferometer...
...minute interview took place in Bush's office aboard Air Force One as we flew from Andrews Air Force Base to New Orleans. Bush was seated at his wooden desk, which is shaped like a boomerang. The President seemed relaxed during the interview; it was obvious that he had been giving a lot of interviews lately and was in a kind of groove. He leaned over the desk while he answered questions, absent-mindedly fiddling with a cellophane candy wrapper as he spoke, and finally tearing it into little pieces...