Word: containers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...aging gracefully. We're fighting it every step of the way, making the War on Aging a national crusade, dedicating some of our nation's greatest scientific minds and medical talents to developing new forms of cosmetic surgeries, new exercise contraptions, new diets, new miracle fabrics that camouflage and contain, and all manner of expensive new anti-aging ointments. --Bill Geist, The Big Five-Oh! Facing, Fearing, and Fighting Fifty...
...problem is this. Many of the world's computers and microchip circuitry, the ones that run everything from cash machines and VCRs to interstate electric-power grids and intercontinental ballistic missiles, contain a programming oversight that makes them incapable of reading the date 2000. To represent years, computers generally use just the last two digits. When 1999--that's 99 in computer language--rolls over at midnight to 00, computers that have not had the glitch repaired will conclude that the date is 1900. That can lead to a surprising range of malfunctions, and not just in such obviously date...
...agreement does contain exemptions to discuss certain principles. The Ivy League schools, for example, have a uniform policy of no athletic scholarships...
...currently able to produce. "It won't mean much unless Iraq can import machinery to upgrade its oil production, which is forbidden under current sanctions," says Dowell. While France believes sanctions are ineffective and exacting a brutal toll on the Iraqi people, Washington sees them as essential to contain Saddam. "But without a comprehensive Iraq strategy, Washington faces the danger that the current impasse causes an informal collapse of sanctions," says Dowell. "That would be a significant erosion of U.S. global leadership...
Beyond the poignantly personal dilemmas are broader family and societal issues. If a test is positive, should blood relatives be warned that their genes may contain the same inherited flaw? If so, should such findings become part of a permanent record, like a college transcript or an income tax return? And should doctors alert public health authorities, as they would for contagious conditions such as typhoid, hepatitis and AIDS? More disturbing, isn't there a hint of eugenics in all this picking and choosing, an attempt to shape people to our own genetic prejudices...