Word: gots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interested in atmosphere than in denouement. There are long, long passages of the author's by now patented low-life banter, characters being long-winded and tedious about the banalities of their lives. Readers who like this sort of thing will love Trust. Others will wish that Earl had got his comeuppance a lot earlier in the book...
People who have switched to decaffeinated coffee for health reasons got a nasty jolt last week. At a meeting of the American Heart Association, Stanford researchers reported a study of 181 middle-aged men showing that among those who exchanged decaffeinated for regular coffee, levels of harmful LDL cholesterol rose an average of 7%. That could increase the risk of heart attack an estimated...
...registered every shock of those seismic years. As an adman, he taught America's children the insistent demand "I want my Maypo." In the early 1980s he recycled the line to meet their grownup tastes: "I want my MTV." And he's the man who told people, "When you got it, flaunt it" (for Braniff airlines, remember?), a pretty good description of his advertising ethos...
...particular, some scientists speculate that cold dark matter caused galaxies to form into the kind of bubbles Geller and Huchra have found. The process supposedly got under way 10 billion to 20 billion years ago, when the universe began with the Big Bang and the energy from that explosion started to condense into matter. Since then, ordinary visible matter, by itself, has probably not had time to gather into enormous structures. But cold dark matter may have condensed first, and its gravitational force could have helped pull visible matter into bubbles and galaxies. In fact, recent computer simulations at Princeton...
...public relations flop. The President and his briefers seem to have invested far more time in considering how to counter a surprise Gorbachev proposal than in pondering what Europe -- and the U.S. role in it -- will be like ten years from now. Says one foreign policy official: "We've got plenty of philosophy and vision for 'a Europe whole and free' ((one of Bush's standard phrases)). What we don't have is practical ideas for building this new Europe. Do we use wood or cinder blocks? Where do we lay out the walls?" White House chief of staff John...