Word: crackly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1970s. The Khmer Rouge, whose genocidal reign of terror killed an estimated 1 million Cambodians, did little direct damage to the monuments, but the fighting made maintenance impossible. Says B. Narasimhaiah, the head of an Indian archaeology team at Angkor Wat: "Wherever there is a small crack, dust will accumulate and soon a bush will spring up." All but a few of the major temples are covered in weeds, small bushes and even large trees...
...enlist TV's help in tracking down fugitives through shows like America's Most Wanted and Unsolved Mysteries. They let reporters from local stations, as well as network news shows like 48 Hours, follow them around on everything from routine patrols to big-time drug busts. And when they crack a major case, they sell their stories to Hollywood producers for the inevitable "fact-based" TV movie...
...described Rider as a 26-year-old, college-educated member of the Bloods who got out. He made a great deal of money dealing crack, invested it and now lives very well with his family in a nice neighborhood. He doesn't deal anymore. To most people, Rider appears to be a successful investor. He wears Armani suits, collects classic cars, owns a 40-ft. powerboat. He drives a four-by-four but keeps an Uzi stashed in the back, just in case...
...year contract with scientists at Moscow's Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy to do research on thermonuclear fusion, a potentially limitless energy source that American physicists have been struggling with for decades. Both deals are tremendous bargains for the U.S. Sun is paying Babayan's 50 or so crack computer scientists just a few hundred dollars a year apiece. And the entire 116-member Kurchatov team is being hired for $90,000 a year -- roughly the salary of one high-level U.S. physicist...
Kiante Brown, 15, of Oakland, knows this all too well. His mother is a recovering crack addict who, he says, pays little attention to his comings and goings, and he hasn't seen his father in two years. Kiante used to spend his afternoons selling drugs on street corners. What little education he has came in bits and pieces; he has missed so much school he'll have to repeat the eighth grade. "I didn't really drop out, but I haven't been going to school much," he says. "For a while my mom told...