Word: corde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rock band Living Colour celebrates Hemp (another of the virtually interchangeable terms for marijuana) in lyrics that read like something a junior-high burnout might carve on his desk during detention: "How carefully I've shaped you in the solitude of days./ How peaceful is my mind entwined in cord around my fingers...
...Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists do a bungee-cord ballet). But no artiste is allowed to be a specialist. All must do double duty, as Harlequins or chorus girls, to fit into the precise, giddy scheme devised by director Franco Dragone and his team...
...computers are protected against theft with a series of locks and clamps. Whoever set up the security system, in a brilliant flash of ignorance, clamped the power cord to the monitor...
Multiple sclerosis is considered an autoimmune disease, caused by the biological equivalent of friendly fire. For reasons that remain vague, cells of the immune system turn their potent chemical weapons against the myelin sheath that protects nerve fibers in the spinal cord and brain. While the severity of the disease varies widely, the resulting nerve damage can cause progressive disablement that, after two decades, leaves 30% of patients in wheelchairs...
...inside his cage, Kanzi had the makings of a tool that could solve the riddle: some pieces of flint he had selected during an excursion to the countryside. No sweat! By slamming the flints against the concrete floor, the chimp created knifelike chips, which he used to cut the cord and free the key. He then used the key to open the other box and grab the treat...