Word: flare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persuasive study suggests that a novel technique may help multiple sclerosis patients when standard therapies fail. It involves replacing a subject's own blood plasma with an artificial substitute. Symptoms eased or vanished in 42% of those studied. Caveat: it was tried only on patients having an acute flare-up, not those with chronic, progressive...
David Vieira, who had been banished to the Dorado's deck to smoke a cigarette, spotted the flare and went inside to wake the captain, Skip Harris...
...Nosing around in a Waco storage facility Friday, the Lone Star lads turned up one of the infamous missing pyrotechnic tear gas grenades, a star parachute flare that could have set the fire ? although an FBI spokesman insisted that "categorically, we did not use illumination rounds on the 19th." But James B. Francis Jr., the very suspicious head of the Texas Department of Public Safety (of which the Rangers are a part), wants to know why the flares were used at all. "These flares are potentially a very important issue, inasmuch as the government had enormous spotlights trained...
...effort. Needing just three months and $20,000, his team built a stereo-size detector designed to look over the shoulder of Harvard's 61-in. telescope as it conducts regular studies of starlight. While stars typically pulsate comparatively slowly, Horowitz's device is calibrated to spot intense stellar flare-ups lasting only a few billionths of a second. Such "events," he figures, would probably be powerful bursts of artificial light aimed at us from an inhabited planet orbiting that star. In short, an interstellar hello...
...think it's very good for my credibility," Janet Reno told reporters Thursday of the latest flare-up, the revelation by former FBI deputy director Danny Coulson that two pyrotechnic devices had indeed been fired at the compound on the day of the standoff?s fiery climax. After six years, an important part of the official line on the big question ?- that the government had never used incendiary devices and therefore could not possibly be responsible for the fire ?- had been reversed, and Reno was certainly right. But there is more than credibility at stake. When Reno?s internal investigation...