Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nonetheless, Gattaca, despite a certain emotional shallowness, does hit a nerve with its glass-and-chrome model of a society obsessed with the potential for human perfection. Perhaps its best spokesperson is the courteous, kindly-looking genetic "consultant" who, early on, advises Vincent's parents on the birth of their second child. After sketching some of the wonderful and more reasonable tweaking possibilities that lie before them--prevention of genetic defects, diseases, bad eyesight, predisposition to obesity--he finally concludes, in the most quietly persuasive tones in the world, "[The child] is still you...It's just the best...
...that it didn't form a whole embryo but it just formed the organ you wanted, plus the heart and circulatory system." Yes, this is no mad science, but simply organ transplant research ? just as Dr. Ian Wilmut originally cloned Dolly the sheep to create a better glass of milk...
...Linda McVeigh Mathews, a distinguished journalist, resigned from a newspaper when her editors would not allow her to cover the same foreign beat as her journalist husband, and has just left another paper after being "emotionally battered" by her boss. In a variety of corporations Marilyn Wilt "encountered the glass ceiling again and again" and quit the business world to "empower" herself...
...seemed just perfect for Robert L. Johnson last week. His BET Holdings Inc. (1996 sales: $133 million), the nation's foremost black media conglomerate, posted its 13th consecutive quarterly profit increase. As the cash floods in, Johnson is living a media god's life. He has built a mirrored glass-and-steel headquarters in a poor neighborhood of Washington and acquired a lavish 133-acre horse farm in Virginia hunt country. He has also planned to buy the company and offered shareholders a deal that values BET at $800 million. His concept: transform BET's golden logo into...
...friend Sara quickly pulls a glass vial from her bra. After a glance around for security, she holds the black-capped vial under a pulsing light, revealing the powder she first came across in July. Now, she says, "I'm into it like every weekend." Sara is 16, and what she's into is an anesthetic sometimes administered to people but, more commonly, to cats and monkeys. Generically called ketamine, street K is most often diverted in liquid form from vets' offices or medical suppliers. Dealers dry the liquid (usually by cooking it) and grind the residue into powder...