Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chinese writers in the diaspora have weighed in on the joint declaration. The Business Times of Singapore, for example, wrote a strong editorial that said, even though "China has, on occasions, appeared intent on capitalizing on Japan's 'war guilt,' the fact is that Japan is on weak moral ground so long as it refuses even to recognize some of its previous wrongs against China...
...swimming pool by the time class was over," she says. "I had never worked so hard in my life." But the hard work has resulted in a sublime sense of well-being. "I no longer feel like a leaf blowing in the wind," she says. "I'm on solid ground, and I've never felt better. I have a feeling of power and strength within myself." Yoga is now "a necessity, not a luxury" for Tiegs. Could that be why she married her teacher, Rod Stryker, last spring...
...known as Apatosaurus) of comic-book fame. Had they survived, they would have been about 15 in. long at birth--"about the size of a small poodle," says Chiappe--but 40 ft. to 50 ft. from the tips of their giraffe-like necks to the ends of their long, ground-hugging tails in adulthood. The third team leader, paleontologist Rodolfo Coria of Argentina's Museo Municipal Carmen Funes, identifies them more specifically as titanosaurs, smaller versions of sauropods that were common in the area...
...Model builders sculpt clay facsimiles of the film's characters. Traditional animators act out roles before video cameras to decide just how the characters' limbs should move. Graphics jocks transform 2-D pictures into 3-D worlds, agonizing over how to make raindrops splatter realistically when they hit the ground...
...such dire numbers don't stop armchair generals from fantasizing. Prying Saddam out of Baghdad with Iraqi rebels is a doomed enterprise, they believe. "If you were to have a credible program for the removal of Saddam Hussein, it's going to involve U.S. ground troops," says Senator Richard Lugar, an influential member of the Foreign Relations Committee. And if Saddam won't give up power? "I suspect then," Lugar says, "that he will have to be killed." The Indiana Republican concedes he's using "a novelist's imagination" to chart Saddam's fate. Pentagon officials agree that such wishful...