Word: fall
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sure, everyone's excited about the iMac, but Apple's comeback really rests on something called OS X, the next version of Apple's beloved operating system, which defines the look and feel of the Macintosh. When it ships this fall, OS X will revolutionize the way you use your Mac. For some, it won't be a moment too soon. MORE...
...such dazzling advances in the practice of medicine, it may be prudent to cast a glance over the shoulder, back to an earlier era when scientists--or people who thought they were doing science--stirred hopes that better days were only a generation or so away. The rise and fall of the theory known as eugenics is in every respect a cautionary tale. The early eugenicists were usually well-meaning and progressive types. They had imbibed their Darwin and decided that the process of natural selection would improve if it were guided by human intelligence. They did not know they...
...incredibly difficult, but last fall scientists at the University of Wisconsin managed to isolate stem cells and get them to grow into neural, gut, muscle and bone cells. The process still can't be controlled, and may have unforeseen limitations. But if efforts to understand and master stem-cell development prove successful, doctors will have a therapeutic tool of incredible power...
...atom. If not held in check, the weapons they made possible might well destroy the very fabric of civilized human life. So physicists of the late 1940s were simultaneously revered for making atoms relevant to society and feared for what their toys could do if they were to fall into the hands of evil...
Russia's economic free fall has not been kind to MIKHAIL GORBACHEV. First, in the banking collapse that followed last August's devaluation of the ruble, he lost--as he told the German magazine Bunte--his life savings of some $80,000. Then the Pizza Hut in Moscow that he made world famous in a TV commercial last year closed its doors. Now he's trying to make a little scratch and regain a measure of respect at home--where the vast majority of his compatriots continue to revile him for causing their present woes--with the latest volume...