Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makers, trading-card manufacturers and other entrepreneurs using his name and likeness without permission. The new attorneys have filed applications to federally register the terms "O.J. Simpson," "O.J." and "The Juice" as trademarks. Meanwhile, a limited edition of 300 football cards, signed and dated by O.J. from his jail cell, went on sale for $850 each...
...manufactured by the body. Like minerals and vitamins, they must be ingested as food. "If we don't eat enough," says Siguel, "then we won't have enough." And that would be unfortunate, for these compounds -- principally linoleic acid and linolenic acid -- are vital to the maintenance of cell membranes and to the manufacture of potent chemical messengers that regulate everything from blood pressure to the firing of nerves...
Until then, the graying Jackal sits in his underground cell, where he is barred access to television, radio and newspapers. Perhaps that is a kindness. If Carlos knew how the world is dismissing him as an overrated has-been, it might strike him as the cruelest fate...
...create duplicate babies. Specifically, the proposed rules will bar fertility specialists from splitting a fertilized egg into two, thereby creating identical embryos, and then placing them in a woman's uterus. Nor would researchers be allowed to make copies of adults by taking genetic information from, say, a skin cell and placing it in a fertilized egg stripped of its own DNA. But cloning like that performed by the George Washington doctors would be allowed. Because the eggs they used had been fertilized by more than one sperm, the embryos were destined to die within a few days anyway...
...missions, unimpressively soft targets and years of dissipation from high living and alcohol consumption. While Carlos hid out in the Middle East over the past 10 years, intelligence forces often cleared their blotters by blaming the elusive mastermind for their unsolved cases. Now that he is safely lodged in cell 258187 of Paris' La Sante prison, a less-than-breathless truth is rapidly emerging...