Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little house on 24th Street and began an international dating service called A Foreign Affair, a.k.a. loveme.com They ran ads in Russian newspapers asking women to send photos and vital statistics, and several weeks later their website debuted with 300 Russian princesses. Today they are the Manny, Moe and Jack of love. They have profiles of 6,500 women from 49 countries, dozens of clients have married, and they've hired six more employees in Phoenix and 20 in Russia. "It just took off," says Adams, whose love connection was one of the first to go online...
...Fairchild, Noyce used a new chemical etching method not only to print transistors on silicon wafers but also to lay down tracks between them. Besides eliminating expensive wiring, the new integrated circuits operated much faster. Six months earlier Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby had produced a similar chip, but it was made of germanium, required external wires and was tougher to manufacture. Noyce's chip won the ensuing patent race, but the two friendly rivals were content to regard themselves as co-inventors...
...Jack Kevorkian, also known as "Dr. Death," performs his first assisted suicide...
After taking part in more than 130 suicides and beating four previous prosecutions for assisting in deaths, Dr. Jack Kevorkian was convicted for the first time on Friday. "This is a big victory for prosecutors who've been trying to put him away for years," says TIME Midwest correspondent Julie Grace. "But they are not the only ones who won't be saddened by this outcome." Indeed, count many right-to-die supporters in that group. "There is much support for the principle of a right to die," says Grace, but many advocates have lamented seeing Kevorkian become the poster...
...informative strolls through the city led by actor types, has expanded beyond its daytime itineraries to run night sojourns along venerable pub routes, leaving its customers to stumble home several hours and drinks later. For the brave, London Walks stages nighttime treks through the East End haunts of Jack the Ripper, the mysterious Victorian who neatly slitted the throats of ladies of the night but eluded capture...