Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Florida. Officially designated as one of the nation's poorest regions, the area is basking in a cocaine-driven economic boom that has helped fuel a surge in bank deposits. Lavish homes -- paid for in cash -- have been built fronting the Rio Grande, and luxury cars equipped with cellular telephones dot the unpaved streets of such towns as Roma and Rio Grande City. Hard-pressed lawmen fear that they can do no more than hold the line against the traffickers...
...valuable licenses practically for free on other, equally bogus criteria. After more than a half-century of this foolishness, many of America's largest fortunes derive from ownership of broadcasting franchises. Helms himself has made the odd nickel this way. In just the past few years, the awarding of cellular- telephone franchises has created a whole new category of white male multimillionaires. Reformers have long argued that valuable FCC licenses should be auctioned off, rather than given away, so that the value can be shared...
...best way to combat cellular aging is to postpone its effects at the molecular level. Basic research is now under way to understand the mechanisms that make human cells wear out and to try to find the genes that cause the major degenerative diseases of old age -- arthritis, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease. This work could have a double benefit: extending life expectancy and helping to make those extra years worth living. But researchers have no idea when, or if, breakthroughs will take place...
...Cellular and Developmental Biology students at work in the Biological Labs, Winston J. Thomas and David M. Rose, promptly dismissed the matter of fashion...
That brief, exhilarating moment of national defiance went unseen and unheard by the world. Each day Kuwait grows more isolated as the Iraqi occupiers cut off the last few lines of telephone communication. Even the dozens of Kuwaiti refugees in Saudi Arabia who call home by mobile cellular phone can rarely get through. Citizens and foreign residents must rely on friends and relatives who have escaped the country to bear their message of despair. Although the tide of refugees is drying up as Iraqis reportedly mine the desert roads, each day brings another exhausted traveler on the run with fresh...