Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...clubs is their potential for loss of perspective. It is so frighteningly easy to lose sight of the absurdity of a bunch of 20-year-old guys renting out Boston's fanciest restaurants, donning tuxedos and feeding their guests filet mignon, passing the wine and quieting their cell phones, dealing in sums of money with which few college kids are ever directly confronted outside of their tuition bills. It's fun and it's basically fine, as long as we all--guests and hosts--stay relatively self-aware...
...CELL PHONES...
...writing to object to Dr. Ian Smith's article "Cell-Phone Scare," reacting to ABC News's 20/20 report [PERSONAL TIME: YOUR HEALTH, Nov. 1]. Those of us who spent four months investigating the safety of cell phones read Smith's column with disbelief. How could the description of our report be so inaccurate? We questioned whether Smith had even seen our two-part, 24-min. broadcast. He wrote that he was "startled by the possibility that ABC could have uncovered a smoking gun in a medical controversy that has been simmering unresolved for years." But we specifically reported, "There...
...Vietnam War issues, where McCain has reason to harbor anger, he has displayed a surprising ability to let it go. He befriended David Ifshin, the war protester whose speeches were piped into his cell, and he led the charge to forgive the country that held him for so long. The effort took a tremendous toll on McCain, says Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, also a decorated Vietnam War hero, who watched the Navy pilot under siege by members of his own party and some veterans' groups. "I saw him suffer a lot of outrageous, outlandish accusations about his character and patriotism...
...outcry from long-standing critics was also immediate. They pointed out that St. Gen's "enhancement" technology added new genes to every cell in a child's body. Furthermore, there was a very good chance the child would pass these genetic alterations on to her children as well. "Wasn't this simply germ-line genetic engineering with a new name?" they asked wryly...