Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, I'm really annoyed by the fact that we only have seven minutes to get from one class to another. Seeing as how most of my professors start three minutes early and end three minutes later, I have one fat minute in which to travel from, say, the Science Center to the top floor of Lamont Library. Which means I usually arrive just in time to hear things like" ...and those are the topics you need to know for the upcoming test...
...sounded too good to be true, and it probably was. The Center for Science in the Public Interest -- the organization that brought us the evils of Chinese food and movie house popcorn -- claimed Wednesday that the fat substitute olestra is too dangerous to be put into the nation's potato chips. "The basic problem is that there isn't enough evidence that this product is safe," says TIME's Alice Park. "Olestra seems to deplete the body of essential vitamins, and its use raises some questions about other health risks that we need to know the answers to before...
Poundstone ridiculed the idea of 1993 as the "Year of the Woman," asking, "What fat white guy came up with that phrase...
...start-up commands more than 70% of the market for software that enables networkers to "browse" the World Wide Web--the fast-growing multimedia portion of the Internet. Having promised it would make the Net safe for business--including home banking and online creditcard shopping--Netscape has become a fat target for anybody with the time or skill to prove that it hasn't achieved that goal. Just last month the company had to rush out a new version of the Netscape browser after two groups of hackers cracked its security code...
...Pomp Duck, self-described as "a restaurant out of control." The staff (actors, mostly from Germany) are nuts. They steal your bread, feed you soup, mummify you in packing tape, give you a quick shampoo. When waiters announce the fish course, beware--you will get damp! There are also fat ladies in skimpy costumes, a man who plays Vivaldi on liquor bottles, an opera singer treated rudely by the maitre d' and a food critic who can't stop complaining. "It's like eating at Denny's!" he shouts. The whole thing plays like a Teutonic Olsen and Johnson-Heilzapoppin...