Word: extras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Architectural Digest is about to launch a new publication called Motoring). Moreover, signature design is no longer the realm of the snobby, afford-anything rich. Ask Martha Stewart, or the prominent architects and furniture and car designers who swap industries these days just to give products that extra mark of distinction. Thus Hirshberg, who began his career as a Pontiac designer, is doing a newspaper. An everyman-discount store like Target, for instance, hires architect Michael Graves to design a toaster. And an everyman-car company like Ford hires a product designer like Australian Marc Newson to do a sprightly...
...England, is apparently on the verge of developing a highly precise mass spectrometer that might be able to tackle the problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky and his colleagues will have little to do except wait ?- and collect more evidence. After getting the word out to be extra careful with new meteorite finds (previous discoveries have been tainted by suspicions that they had become contaminated by water from Earth's environment), Zolensky has had another hit on a rock that touched down in Morocco. "Lo and behold, it's the same stuff in a different meteorite," he said...
...most cases, the data address what happens when children are deprived of stimulation, not what happens when they get extra helpings. If kids aren't routinely exposed to language during the first year of life, for example--sign language, if they're deaf--they gradually lose the capacity to learn it at all. Similarly, kids who have uncorrected eye disorders early on will lose the capacity to coordinate the vision in both eyes. "We can't prove conclusively that these deficits involve the wiring of the brain," admits Kuhl. "But we're pretty sure it isn't happening...
...just because sensory and emotional deprivation leads to damage, argues Bruer, that doesn't mean extra stimulation will make a child better than normal. And on that too just about everyone agrees. "The assumption that if a normally stimulating environment is good, a 'superenvironment' must be better," says Nelson, "has no basis in science." In fact, argues Melmed, it can be worse: "If you try to give your baby more stimulation than she can handle, she'll shut down...
Fearing that the eclipse would mean chaos or civil unrest, media coverage of the event has been overwhelmingly negative. The Cornwall tourist board trumpeted slogans like "come early, stay long, leave late," British Rail added 21 extra trains during the week and last November the Cornish Local Medical Committee urged prospective parents to avoid conceiving, in the expectation that gridlock caused by the eclipse would prevent them from reaching maternity units...