Word: iceberg
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when you want them. At the basic end of the scale, Netgrocer.com wants to send you nonperishables like cereal or juice in a FedEx box sometime in the next four days. At the other, San Francisco-based Webvan will bring you hideously perishable stuff like ice cream and iceberg lettuce within a 30-min. window...
...believe in the artistic potential of animation. The movie celebrates that potential, often spectacularly so. Respighi's Pines of Rome metamorphoses, in director Hendel Butoy's vision, into a classic fairy-tale theme of a child separated from its parents. The child is a whale, inside a hollow iceberg; it fretfully watches its parents' shadows outside the ice wall as it tries to escape. Then it magically floats up on a shaft of light and joins the rest of the pod. Together they all soar, through clouds, until with a great splash they come to the surface of what...
...company recently established an ethics committee, to which buyers and other Wal-Mart employees can refer any knotty issue. As Wal-Mart continues to grow internationally, the committee will no doubt get busier. Certainly the medical-ethics front will get murkier. "We are only at the tip of the iceberg," says Soderquist. "There will be lots of issues that will come up: suicide pills, genetic engineering. Can they prescribe pills that alter the genes...
LUNCH BLT, but replace the bread with iceberg lettuce...
...mouse, the public shouldn't get trapped into generalizing about research performed on mice. "What goes on with lab mice is many, many steps away from what goes on with humans," says Horowitz. "And the work we're doing now with gene therapy is only the tip of the iceberg. It'll be a long time before these things pan out into medical cures...