Word: corde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors to discover its "off-label" cosmetic applications. Last year, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, more than 65,000 Botox procedures were performed--mostly on women, but on increasing numbers of men too. The drug has also been found to be effective in treating vocal-cord disorders, anal fissures, teeth grinding and "problem" sweat glands...
Next come the makings for amateur bombs: jars of gunpowder, lengths of pipe and a homemade blasting cap fashioned from fuse cord and a rifle shell. Given crank's capacity for rendering even casual users clinically psychotic (the transparent spiders weave webs inside the brain long after the meth has left one's system), the arsenal is probably unnecessary, real weapons amassed for a figmentary showdown...
...horse and urged doctors to pull the plug. "They told her to calm down, to wait and see what would happen," Reeve writes in his just-published (by Random House) memoir, "Still Me," which recounts how he battled back from the May 1995 riding accident that severed his spinal cord. Reeve, 45, writes of how he, too, almost gave up hope, telling his wife, Dana, "Maybe we should let me go." She persuaded the "Superman" actor to go on by responding: "I want you to know that I'll be with you for the long haul, no matter what...
Several weeks ago, when I first heard of RSI, I was quick to dismiss it as a '90s phenomenon that could only befall computer addicts, attached to their motherboards by a virtual umbilical cord. Alternatively, I wrote RSI off as a trendy psycho-somatic problem for humanities concentrators desperately in need of an extension...
...decided to go ahead with it. I paid and weighed myself. They wrote my weight on the back of my hand and snapped a blue band around my wrist, indicating I was in the heaviest allowable weight class and should have the strongest and shortest cord. I joined two instructors, two jumpers and two observers. They placed us in seat harnesses, weighed us again and took us to the elevator...