Word: grandchildren
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...success goads Hammond to exploit the made-from-concentrate behemoths for profit. He hatches the dinosaurs on a Central American island and builds a theme park around them. Before the scheduled opening, a few guests -- including craggy paleontologist Alan Grant, lissome paleobotanist Ellie Sattler and Hammond's two young grandchildren -- come to Jurassic Park for a sneak preview. Then things go spectacularly wrong. The novel's first half is a controlled tram trip through this high-tech zoo, the second half a terror- filled obstacle course strewn with dinosaurs amuck: swooping pterodactyls, dilophosaurs that spit venom, a famished tyrannosaurus...
...debates without seeing them. (In my defense, I offer the classic academic's line--I read the reviews.) Heard about Stockdale's virtuoso performance two days later. Didn't see Bush get defensive on network news. Missed Buchanan's tirade at the Republican Convention. I wonder if my grandchildren will believe me when I explain that it was hard to participate in history without cable...
...that have strayed from their neighborhood between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter and periodically pass close to Earth -- and sometimes smash into it. The vigil has paid off. Over the years, the couple have discovered more than 300 asteroids, some of which they have named after their children, grandchildren and in-laws. About 10% of their discoveries are ECAs, but none is currently in an orbit that puts it on a collision course with the earth. Still, the Shoemakers keep looking: lurking somewhere out there may be a hulk with bad intentions...
Freidel is survived by his second wife,Madeleine, of Belmont; his mother, Edith, ofOrange, Calif.; a brother; three sisters; fourdaughters; three sons; and eight grandchildren...
...irony is that these are the same children and grandchildren who have complained bitterly that they have been unable to achieve the affluence of their parents, despite two-income families, longer work hours and all the other sacrifices that now define a generation. They have also suffered under the burden of Social Security and Medicare taxes that consume as much as 15% of their incomes -- all monies that are paid directly to their elders in one of the largest transfers of wealth in American history. All told, some 60% of federal entitlements go to those over 64, even though they...