Word: controllable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Everyone loved the Jeep, an instant icon with its short frame and oh-so-rugged ways. Eventually, our hearts and wallets--and behinds--warmed to beefed-up successors, like the Ford Explorer and GMC Yukon. But is the whole SUV craze getting a little out of control with the new Ford Excursion, the King Kong of SUVs at 19 ft. and 8,500 lbs.? Park it in the garage--won't happen. And this six-door nine-seater swallows gas fast enough (about 12 miles per gal.) to warm any oil sheik's heart...
...woman's immune system displays an exquisite amount of control that a man's cannot replicate. It's still not clear why, but the female body's defenses tend to mount more aggressive responses to invading marauders; then, during pregnancy, this response is dampened considerably to accommodate the fetus. Perhaps owing to this on-off intensity, women are more prone to developing lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and multiple sclerosis, all conditions in which the immune system attacks healthy tissue. Researchers are just beginning to study why estrogen might cause the defense system to rev into overdrive in these cases...
...hormone treatments have drastically cut the incidence of cancer of the uterus, ovaries and cervix over the past five decades. Pap smears that detect abnormal cells in the cervix before they become malignant have contributed to a 75% drop in cervical cancer since the 1950s. Wider use of birth control pills and hormonereplacement therapy (with estrogen and progestin) have decreased the risk of ovarian and uterine cancers. Recent research also suggests that in some cases, a low-fat diet can cut the risk of cervical cancer even further...
...when he had to spend 20 days in jail for hitting his wife (he's sorry and admits he learned that in America, you're not allowed to beat your spouse). And no, the media don't want to interview him about the time he tried to wrest control of a Vietnamese meditation group called Vo Vi (his critics said he proclaimed himself God; Tran says he left to pursue a simpler life). Rather, they want to know why he is the target of one of the most heated displays of Asian-American anger ever seen...
...saying, 'The dirty Mexicans are stealing our jobs,' they say, 'We are overwhelmed by immigration,'" notes Mark Potok of Klanwatch. "They are learning to use issues that have real resurgence among white Americans." Many white supremacists have moved into antigovernment "patriot" groups that (publicly, at least) attack gun control instead of blacks and Jews. Y2K fears and the spread of the Christian Identity movement, which counts whites as the chosen people, have also helped growth...