Word: directed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Titans of the 1990s. The past nine months have been hard ones for the Titan booster, now made by Lockheed-Martin, and for the U.S. launch industry as a whole. During that time, three Titan 4s--direct offspring of the reliable Titan 2--were launched, carrying satellites worth hundreds of millions of dollars. All three flopped spectacularly--one committing an explosive suicide 41 seconds after liftoff, the others misfiring and stranding their satellites in useless orbits. Three other rockets--Lockheed's sleek new Athena 2, and a pair of boosters from Boeing's new Delta 3 class--also conspicuously fizzled...
Despite the strong evidence, Snowdon cautions, it is still possible that folate does not play a direct role in the disease. The link could be coincidental. Or it could be that the same mechanism that triggers the disease also destroys the body's ability to retain folate. But folate and the amino acid it controls, homocysteine, have already been implicated in a broad range of diseases, as well as certain neurological birth defects...
...studio in Manhattan, Marc Anthony is working on his new English-language album. He is dressed simply in jeans and a white T shirt, and his voice is ringing out, pure and direct. Sony chief Mottola sits in the control booth, listening, looking, betting on a hit. These are good days for Anthony: he recently completed work on a featured role in Martin Scorsese's film Bringing Out the Dead, co-starring Nicolas Cage. In a few weeks he'll begin recording a duet with neo-soul singer Maxwell. And Anthony's duet with Lopez, No Me Ames, is already...
...Will be directed by Steven Spielberg (untrue--Lucas will direct...
...this was good news for the rapidly fattening bottom line of Direct Response Marketing, a tiny pharmaceutical firm in the British Channel Islands that trades in trendy pills at the website lifestyledrugs.com To his inventory of Viagra (for impotence), Propecia (for balding) and Zyban (to quit smoking), owner Tom O'Brien last week added the much hyped Xenical. Result: a tidal wave of U.S. Web surfers that overwhelmed his staff of four. "We're averaging about 60 to 70 orders an hour," O'Brien reports. "It's wiped...