Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sojourner next turned toward Barnacle Bill, a 10-in.-high rock lying within arm's length of the lander, and closed in to sniff out its mineral content. Displaying a picture of the rover at the rock, the ever buoyant project scientist Matthew Golombek joked, "Here we have proof that Sojourner sort of nestled up and kissed Barnacle Bill." The high-tech buss, profferred by the rover's X-ray spectrometer, produced an unexpected finding: the rock was apparently loaded with silicon or silicon dioxide, commonly known as quartz...
...elated at the empowerment of the FDA to regulate tobacco and the nicotine content of cigarettes. But, sadly, this is a step that should have been taken 50 years ago, when Bogie and Bacall first made smoking the chic way to die. SARAH ANASTASIA OLYNYK, age 14 Shaker Heights, Ohio...
...most of those bands lost themselves in wearing novelty on their sleeve and valuing style over content, the man behind the Mountain Goats has continued to produce innovative music. He has developed and focused his song writing and instrumentation (two albums ago he added a backup singer and abass to the Mountain Goats) and created a sound all of his own. Producing music a world apart from that which is commonly heard on the radio today, Darnielle has admitted that his band sounds unlike any other because no one lese cares...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Caving into congressional pressure to rate its programs more specifically for offensive content, rather than simply by age groups, the television industry has reached an agreement with parents' groups and children's advocates on a new system to be announced today. Beginning October 1, programs will be rated V (for violence), S (for sexual content), L (offensive language) or D (suggestive dialogue) on screen. ABC, CBS, Fox and the major cable networks are expected to sign the agreement at the White House today, and have also agreed to add five non-industry citizens to the board that evaluates...
...Clinton healthcare reform proposal. Web entrepreneurs who may have been a tad concerned to learn that Magaziner's next big challenge was formulating the White House Web commerce strategy announced today may be relieved to see that while President Clinton seems determined to control some forms of Web content, he's taking a hands-off approach to Web commerce. In presenting a policy paper designed to serve as blueprint for government control of the Internet, from copyright protections to privacy considerations, the President called for key patent and intellectual property policies to be developed in the next year. While...