Word: circuitous
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rubino won a 10-day restraining order barring the network from airing further tapes. CNN appealed the order, then defied it, broadcasting a conversation between Noriega and a private investigator on his defense team. On Saturday the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit rejected CNN's appeal of the restraining order. At the same time, Rubino sought a contempt ruling against the network...
...flasks, while in the others the cells refused to multiply. Reason: a research team, led by Johns Hopkins University oncologist Bert Vogelstein, had endowed the quiescent cells with a protective device that the dividing ones lacked, in this case a normal copy of a gene that acts as a circuit breaker, shutting down growth. The scientists had found a way, at least in theory, to stop a tumor after it gets started...
...former Air Force Chief of Staff, fired in September for discussing plans to target-bomb Saddam Hussein, is thriving on the Washington dinner circuit, saying the same things. He also remains on the government payroll until Jan. 1, when his pension will jump $17,000 a year...
...crime actually take place? The 12 jurors who will hear evidence this week in Room 214 in the Winnebago County circuit courthouse in Oshkosh will break unusual legal ground in reaching a decision. Until now, the handful of U.S. criminal cases that have involved multiple-personality disorders have centered on sufferers who had committed crimes. They later maintained that they either were not responsible for their actions by reason of insanity or were incompetent to stand trial. For the first time, the testimony of a victim claiming to have the disorder could send someone else to prison for as many...
...recalls, writer Erma Bombeck told her that more men were coming to her talks and breaking up at columns addressed primarily to women. Bombeck's conclusion: "That means they are doing laundry. They understand that washing machines eat socks." In the '90s these changes are amplified on the nightclub circuit, where 20% of the comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario...