Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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I spend seven hours a day with my eight- and nine-year-old campers. I memorized their names with relative ease. It is now the fourth week of this two month program, and I know each of my nine campers vastly better than I knew my Peace Games students. And...
--When AnnMarie Fischer, 39, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., gave birth to her daughter Cassie four years ago, doctors discovered the baby had a hole in her heart. Chances were good that Cassie would eventually need surgery to fix the defect if it didn't close on its own. But Fischer...
It is one of the less publicized wonders of modern medicine that the planet's most lethal toxin--the one that causes botulism in badly canned vegetables and can make a capable germ-warfare agent--now offers hope for the vain. A less messy alternative to face-lifts and chemical...
Others might have been tempted last Monday to buy stocks of companies that make semiconductors or computer chips, only to discover, once they got them home, that the stuff was priced to move because it was broken. A number of semiconductor companies announced later last week that because of weak...
Even the pros sometimes fail to do all their homework. Last Monday I bought stock in Steelcase, the largest maker of office furniture in the U.S., only to discover afterward that it had been decked by its Canadian business. Huh? What Canadian business?