Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more and cruises for up to 40 years. It is ugly too; during maturation the skull of the halibut twists, moving one eye to the opposite side and giving the beast -- naturally enough -- a grotesquely pained look. Well, its sufferings are over. Aquaculturists, again in Norway, have produced a dwarf version, at a mere 15 lbs., that takes only three years to reach market size, rather than the 10 required by the wild variety...
...experts who are convening this week to mark the anniversary, participants will be reminded that a 7.5 quake is expected at some indeterminate future date along the Hayward fault, which runs through a more populous area than the better-known San Andreas fault does. Its consequences, experts say, could dwarf Loma Prieta's. Millions of residents in the Bay Area are obviously aware of these dangers. But apparently mesmerized by the benign climate and laid- back life-style they enjoy, most seem more than willing to take the risk of staying...
...hour and three one-hour episodes of Twin Peaks. The rambunctious road movie Wild at Heart, winner of the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and now in theatrical release. Four TV commercials for Obsession perfume. A 50-minute video, Industrial Symphony No. 1, featuring a dwarf, prom teens, a floating topless lady, a skinned deer and ethereal warbler Julee Cruise singing from a car trunk; it's Lynch's most brazenly avant-garde work. If that's not enough, how about a weekly David Lynch comic strip called The Angriest Dog in the $ World? Or a book...
...York Governor signed a bill restricting "dwarf tossing" and "dwarf bowling." In tossing, a consenting and harnessed dwarf is hurled toward a mattress; bowling entails a dwarf's being strapped to a skateboard and rolled at a set of pins. Cuomo called these diversions "strange...
...accelerators are big enough or powerful enough to re-create the very earliest fractions of a second after the Big Bang, where answers to the most intriguing mysteries are thought to lie. So U.S. physicists have embarked on a bold quest: the building of a colossal collider that will dwarf today's accelerators. Called the superconducting supercollider, it will have a tunnel that will circle for 87 km (54 miles) * under the cotton and cattle country surrounding Waxahachie, Texas. Expected to be completed around the year 2000, the SSC will cost $7 billion to $8 billion...