Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John Cloud. Reported by John Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf/Washington
...science take hold, opponents warn darkly, and farmers could find themselves coming to Monsanto, seed cup in hand, paying whatever the company demands before they can plant that season's crop. Worse still, some doomsday scenarios suggest, pollen from Terminator plants could drift with the wind like a toxic cloud, cross with ordinary crops or wild plants, and spread from species to species until flora all around the world had been suddenly and irreversibly sterilized...
...John Cloud. Reported by Adam Zagorin/Washington
TIME writer-reporter John Cloud believes the numbers reveal that "the Pentagon as an institution isn't behind the policy." Implementation, he says, "largely depends on the commitment of the commanding officer. The situation is one in which the commander-in-chief is largely powerless to enforce his own policy." Though the discharge numbers are up -- and something of an embarrassment for the Pentagon -- the new policy has improved the situation for gays in one significant way: "Homosexuals no longer get a dishonorable discharge when they leave," says Cloud. "That means they get to keep their benefits...
...certainly not immune to the gray cloud of misery that has descended onto our little hamlet. I, too, have found myself in the doldrums during the past few days, and after one particularly jarring personal calamity I even tried to seek the aide of a good old fashioned shrink. I went ahead and called University Mental Health Services only to be told by the not-so-nice receptionist that their earliest appointment wasn't for another week. How's that for rapid response? If you're ever on the brink, you only have to teeter for seven days before...