Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...highlighted an important problem for this gymnastic club sport: not having a coach may be flirting with disaster. Though a search by the team and the Athletic Department was underway before last week's mishap, we call on Harvard Athletics to step up their efforts to find a coach--fast...
...bloodbath," said Arnold Kaufman, a market analyst at Standard & Poor's. "It scares you because when you get a decline this fast, there's a risk it will keep snowballing...
Errol Morris' delightful nonfiction film, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, is a testimony to the rest of our lives. A one-line summary of the film: it's about four guys who love their jobs. Five if you count Morris, who has built a unique career on his quirky metadocumentaries (Gates of Heaven, The Thin Blue Line, A Brief History of Time). He is just the filmmaker to find four kindred spirits, united only in their fascination with pursuits that have something to do with animals. They might be anyone with the genial obsession to get to the office...
...LAND Trans fatty acids--a class of fat that's pervasive in the American diet--may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer. They're found in margarine, fast foods, baked goods and some vegetable oils...
PHYSICS: Steven Chu, William Phillips and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. Atoms in the air can move at thousands of miles an hour--far too fast for scientists to get a good look at them. Chu and Phillips, of the U.S., and Cohen-Tannoudji, of France, were cited for developing new ways to slow down and "freeze" atoms at temperatures near absolute zero with blasts of laser light, giving researchers the opportunity for more detailed studies...