Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those are still sideshows. One of the biggest areas of growth for mobile is expected to come in the form of data communications. It is already possible in most European countries to subscribe to services that will send soccer scores and stock prices to your mobile using short messaging, much as a pager does. Soon an advertiser like McDonald's will be able to send a data message to every mobile phone at a football stadium urging their owners to eat a Big Mac at halftime. Or a pedestrian walking past a car showroom might receive a message inviting...
...anyone who has spent a night in Headwaters Grove, awakening at dawn to hear the cries of marbled murrelets, the endangered seabirds that nest in the huge trees, and to watch the great trunks take form in the lightening mist, the idea of owning such a place is daft. But, yes, if the Deal goes through, Maxxam won't own Headwaters. Won't cut it. And California will have a beautiful new tree museum...
...unknown reason, the white blood cells that are fighting invading microbes attack the joint itself--specifically the synovial sac, which acts as both a cushion that keeps bones from banging together and a source of lubricating fluid. Even as the white cells attack, they send out signals, in the form of hormones called cytokines, that rally more troops to their aid. Meanwhile, the besieged synovial cells secrete prostaglandins, which cause inflammation. All this makes the joint redden and become sore...
...helps, they agree, that so few bodies are whole. It's easier not seeing the human form. Near closing time, Poirier says he found a wallet floating on the surface. A woman's. He later saw a newspaper story quoting her relatives, and that made it harder. It made her whole...
...their instruments or the view through their windshields. That concern has moved scores of owners and operators of corporate jets, from Prudential Insurance to Planet Hollywood, to install a $9,915 Emergency Vision Assurance System, manufactured by VisionSafe Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there are two in each cockpit--after donning oxygen masks and goggles. Says mechanical engineer Bertil Werjefelt, who invented the device in the late 1980s and is president of VisionSafe: "There should never be a question...