Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commerce really be that easy? With Case onboard, and TIME's Person of the Year issue to dangle before guests, I pursued a Noah's Ark theory of who else to invite: two members of Congress, two teachers, two candlestick makers. I warned everyone they would be TIME's guinea pigs. But when you're having Alan Greenspan to dinner, you realize the repercussions of a dyspeptic entree. Who wants to serve the meal that ends the longest economic expansion in peacetime history...
...Year's Eve celebrated in Timbuktu, Mali. Already fully booked by tourists for this year's celebration, a night there takes the cake for being the most original way to spend the end of the century: in Africa, at the "end of the world" in Timbuktu! SAMIRA MEGHDESSIAN Conakry, Guinea...
...Basic Training unit is the guinea pig for a new laser-based sighting technique that's supposed to speed up the calibration and learning process. Our one day with it proved only that the drill sergeants aren't any better at learning our tricks than we are - and probably worse. It was total chaos, and half our platoon never even got to switch the things...
...Robert Ascheim, put me in touch with Dr. Todd Rosengart, then leader of a team at Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City that performs both laser and gene therapy. Rosengart enrolled me among 10 heart patients who would be his second round of, er, guinea pigs for the gene-therapy procedure...
...Eliot and Kirkland staff] all know inherently there is a burden on them. They are the guinea pigs," she says...