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Word: braine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...microprocessor acts as the brain of the computer, and it doles out instructions for every component...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THE CHIP WORKS | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...Good" The No. 3 network's print campaign lampoons the very idea of watching TV. For example, ABC gleefully twists the notion, popular in some circles, that TV rots your brain. In place of such warnings, ABC coins its own cheeky maxims, like "The couch is your friend." We hear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST ADVERTISEMENTS OF 1997 | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

...friends had always given him "the Talk." Sheldon Patinkin, artistic consultant of the famed Second City comedy troupe, where Farley got his start, says, "He seemed to be hell-bent. I told him, 'You're drinking yourself to death. You're destroying your brain cells, and pretty soon you'll find it hard to be funny.'" Says Patinkin: "He knew it, and he'd agree, but he couldn't stop." Equally concerned was Farley's mentor Dan Aykroyd, who worried about the young comedian's idolization of another self-destructive SNL comic, Aykroyd's friend John Belushi, who died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHRIS FARLEY: THE SUFFERING OF A FOOL | 12/29/1997 | See Source »

Septuplets a miracle? Consider the common marine toad. It lays 35,000 eggs at a time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 22, 1997 | 12/22/1997 | See Source »

...such an extent that some aides are not sure they have ever met the real Gore. "When he watches TV," a former adviser says, "you can almost see the voice in his head saying, 'Al Gore is watching TV. He is doing this so he can rest his brain, so in a minute he can do something that will change history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAN AL GORE BARE HIS SOUL? | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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