Word: dish
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elderly man develops macular degeneration, a disease that destroys vision. To bolster his failing eyesight, he receives a transplant of healthy retinal tissue--cloned from his own cells and cultivated in a lab dish...
...find some way to kill the time. Newspapers offer up the new and different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
...fighters cruising over mountain ranges. There are many appreciably nifty action sequences involving vehicles of all sorts. There is also the usual bevy of beautiful Bond women, this time including Teri Hatcher, and a new twist to the series in the person of Michelle Yeoh, a Chinese dish who joins forces with 007 and is as skilled and equipped for secret agency as Bond...
...manicured lawns are owned by business tycoons and politicians. But closer to downtown is an area of about 1 sq. mi. that is still home to the predatory crime common in America's inner cities. "It's the kind of place where if you saw a big TV satellite dish, you knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal boss in "Five Squad," the detachment of plainclothes officers given the task of ridding the streets of drugs, or at least confining them to Philadelphia...
...same holds true for many other experimental therapies emerging from the lab. One of the most promising is a technique that keeps embryos growing for a few extra days in a Petri dish. Until recently, clinicians had to put in-vitro embryos into the uterus when they were just one or two days old and relatively fragile. After that, the embryos' metabolism changes, rendering standard growth mixtures useless for nourishing them. That's why clinics insert several at once, which raises the odds of success but often produces triplets, quads and even quints...