Word: ende
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...involves powerful gamma rays emitted by radioactive isotopes. Now Titan Corp. in San Diego, Calif., has invented a meat pasteurization system that uses electron beams instead. Approved by the FDA and awaiting final regulations from the USDA, electronically pasteurized meat should be in selected test markets by year's end...
...Hannigan, and Victor Garber such a cuddly Daddy Warbucks? Kids who made it through The Lion King could surely have handled the dark side of Annie, here expurgated and more treacly than necessary. Still, it's a big production with good Broadway singers belting out catchy songs. In the end, it's hard to say anything bad about Annie (or Annie, Alicia Morton). It's just so darn cute...
Yogi Berra, as usual, said it best: "Prediction is very hard, especially when it's about the future." Yet as we come to the end of the 20th century--a century that saw us split the atom, crack the genetic code and allow Aunt Martha to auction off her turquoise Fiesta ware online--it is only natural to ask what the 21st century will hold for us. We trust that the future will outmarvel the past, but all we can say for sure is that our lives will change more swiftly than ever. In the following pages we ask what...
Chances are that my generation will consume all manner of antiaging drugs and nostrums--antioxidants, growth hormone, vitamin D, garlic, red wine, melatonin, blueberries--and in the end we'll still live only a little longer than our parents. Today in Japan a clothing company is cashing in with "antistink" underwear for middle-aged men, who (according to the company) begin to emit odors. But by the time we die, or shortly thereafter, the expansion of youth and the postponement of old age may become one of the greatest enterprises of the 21st century. "I see it as inevitable," says...
Talk about wishful thinking. One might as well ask if there will be a war that will end all wars, or a pill that will make us all good looking. It is also a perfectly understandable question, given that half a million Americans will die this year of a disorder that is often discussed in terms that make it seem less like a disease than an implacable enemy. What tuberculosis was to the 19th century, cancer is to the 20th: an insidious, malevolent force that frightens people beyond all reason--far more than, say, diabetes or high blood pressure...