Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think she loves her subject too much to keep it to herself." Other stories came from a global team of TIME correspondents and contributors: Lisa Beyer, Jack Epstein, Christopher Hallowell, Thomas Sancton and John Skow. Beyer discovered that one of Jordan's leading conservationists is a 28-year-old cousin of King Hussein...
...excitement began with a growing understanding of how rheumatoid arthritis works. Unlike its more common cousin, osteoarthritis, which causes pain in more than 20 million mostly older Americans through simple deterioration of joint cartilage, rheumatoid arthritis is a complex disease involving an immune system gone awry...
...newspaper or a magazine (including this one) without catching the buzz about a pill called Redux that was going to revolutionize the way Americans lose weight. Then last summer doctors noticed an alarming number of heart-valve problems in their patients who took Redux or its chemical cousin fenfluramine, prompting the recall of both drugs. Now comes word, from three studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, that the heart problems may not be as serious as was first feared--at least for patients who took the pills for less than three months...
...faced Detroit and Salt Lake City. After an intense show, with poems on topics ranging from racism to date rape, a Detroit poet rocked the room with a sharp, stylized jazz piece, pushing her team ahead by 0.3. But my teammate Jerry pulled out a powerhouse finale about his cousin's death, and we skated into first place by a scant 0.1. We also won the next two nights, moving into the Final Four with Dallas, Cleveland and New York...
...Vivian (Natasha Lyonne)--15 and squirmy with all the anxieties, social and sexual, of her age group--knows better. The swell school district isn't worth what living in the slums of Beverly Hills entails: decamping from sleazy apartments at night to avoid the rent, taking in a crazy cousin (Marisa Tomei) in hopes her father will support the Abramowitzes in a style to which they're unaccustomed. There's farce in Jenkins' reflections on her adolescence. But there's also a tough-tender authenticity in her film that sets it poignantly apart from most coming-of-age comedies...