Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Even after his speeches, when he's surrounded by fans who just want a handshake, a few words, a signature in a book, he wears an alarmed and hunted look. He's polite, yet he can't wait to get away, back to his car and driver; to his cell phone and messages and the news clippings he's always reading...
...software firm called Navio that will try to outflank Microsoft by putting browser software on pretty much anything with a screen and a modem. The first stop is likely to be an Internet TV, followed by a $500 network computer, online video gaming machines and Net-surfing cell phones. Organized around a powerhouse electronics alliance that includes just about everyone but Microsoft (Sony, NEC, Nintendo and IBM are supporting the venture), the company has one aim: to use the Internet to make Microsoft Windows irrelevant...
...some, this 20% could mean the difference between breathing on their own and having to use a ventilator. Doctors speculate that at high doses, MP no longer acts as a steroid but instead inhibits the breakdown of fats into the dangerous free radicals that are like acid to cell tissues. For basic activities such as breathing, controlling bowel and bladder movements and moving the arms and legs, a person may need only 8% to 10% of the estimated 800,000 spinal-cord nerves. "It's a source of great hope," says New York University's Dr. Wise Young, a distinguished...
...Pathfinder will land on Mars' pockmarked surface. Unlike the Vikings, Pathfinder will have someplace to go once it gets there. After the pyramid-shaped payload touches down, its sides will open like the petals of a 3-ft.-tall flower to reveal a six-wheeled rover. Powered by solar cells and D-cell batteries, the 2-ft.-long robot vehicle is supposed to hum away from the landing pod, crawling at 2 ft. a minute, and sample the soil for several weeks--or until its batteries...
Before he was hauled away to a 9-ft. by 7-ft. cell in the Brioni-free confines of the Marion Federal Prison in Illinois, John Gotti apparently had a favorite word: parameters. It is a word he uses more than half a dozen times within the course of the two-hour HBO movie Gotti, debuting on the cable network Aug. 17 (9 p.m. EDT). In fact, he says it more often--and with more fierce passion--than he does whack or clip or even scungilli...