Word: brita
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unfortunately, none of these systems are worry-free. The instructions for the popular Brita pour-through carafes, for example, tell customers to change the filter every two months or after every 35 gal., whichever comes first. But many people don't count the gallons they use, and if they forget to check the calendar, they can wind up with filtered water that is in worse condition than the stuff that comes from the tap. PUR, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has capitalized on this all-too-human habit by marketing a filter that automatically shuts itself off when it has expired...
Unfortunately for this particular whale, the track led directly up the coast of Norway -- and on June 17, into the path of the Ann Brita. A few minutes and a well-placed harpoon later, the minke's destiny abruptly changed course. Instead of reaching the Arctic, she ended up on an auction block in the Norwegian port of Svolvaer, sold to the highest bidder for $2.50 a lb. This minke was the first of 160 hauled in by Norway this season for commercial sale. Each of these catches violated the worldwide ban on for-profit hunting established by the International...
...third novel remains only that; Scott terms the book a "master collapse" and does not want it published at all, on the theory that "Bill gets bigger as his distance from the scene deepens." Suddenly, Bill does something wildly out of character. He allows himself to be photographed by Brita, a Swedish woman whose obsession is flying about the globe and taking pictures of every writer she can find. Why, she asks him, while the shooting session is in progress, surrender his privacy now? "To break down the monolith I've built," he says. "I'm afraid to go anywhere...