Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Tinted contact lenses that make blue eyes appear even bluer have been around for several years. Now Wesley-Jessen, a Chicago-based lens manufacturer, has become the first U.S. firm to market a lens that lightens dark eyes, turning them blue, aqua or green. The firm also plans to introduce hazel lenses. Consumers in droves are now snapping up the blobs of soft plastic for about $250 a pair. A solid third of the sales are to customers who buy nonprescription versions solely for cosmetic reasons...
...most controversial technique used by biotechnology is gene-splicing, the insertion of foreign genes into plants, animals or microbes. Scientists have, for example, introduced rat-growth- hormone genes into the DNA of mice, resulting in larger mice, and firefly genes into tobacco plants, which then glow in the dark. Genetic engineering cannot, however, "cross" a cow with a frog to produce a new species. "The essence of a particular animal is something you don't change," explains Thomas Wagner, director of Ohio University's Edison Animal Biotechnology Center in Athens, Ohio...
...thing to support the right to walk alone at night without fear. It is another thing to stand in the dark in Harvard Yard, clutching a candle and feeling foolish, in support of that right. As I scanned the crowd for familiar faces, I remembered the last time I had been involved in a political demonstration. Ten years ago, people wearing white had marched on Washington for the ERA. The Amendment had been defeated, and the march was written off as little more than a failed symbolic gesture...
...within days the voters realized to their chagrin that they had also thrown out city garbage collection, voided 81 municipal ordinances and furloughed the twelve-member local police force. "This is crazy. We're going to the Dark Ages," lamented Police Chief Pat Lowry. Equally upset was Defrocked Mayor Bill Stirling, who suffered a double defeat on election day: he lost to Bill Kelsey, and the job of mayor was eliminated. "There's no precedent for this," complained Stirling. "It's a jungle...
...more compelling than rhetoric, however, was the visual image of Gary Hart: rough-hewn and handsome, dressed in a dark blue suit and trademark black cowboy boots, standing in splendid isolation halfway up a mountain. The lone political warrior towering above his rivals is precisely Hart's position nine months before the Iowa caucuses. It has been Hart vs. a still indistinguishable field ever since New York Governor Mario Cuomo decided to sit out the 1988 race. A Washington Post-ABC News preference poll of Democrats last month gave Hart 46% and Jesse Jackson 14%, with no other active...