Word: jells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...virus had changed. Before, it attacked the respiratory and intestinal tracts of chickens; now, suddenly, it assaulted every tissue in the chickens, including the brain. It caused all their blood vessels to leak and killed them within days, turning the birds, as one researcher put it, into "bloody Jell-O." Federal inspectors arriving at Pennsylvania farms found themselves walking through factory-size chicken coops struck eerily silent, with thousands of dead or hemorrhaging chickens at their feet. The U.S. Department of Agriculture ordered the extermination of 20 million chickens in Pennsylvania, more than 10 times the number that would...
FARRAH FAWCETT Foggy at 50. Buns of steel, but brain of Jell...
...most cautious of the red-tape revolutions has been in the pharmaceutical industry--and with good reason. To be sure, speeding up the approval process at the Food and Drug Administration--where getting a new drug to market has often felt like swimming through Jell-O--is both a worthy and a popular cause. The appetite for free-market trial and error is limited, however, in a business where error has sometimes meant disfigurement or death. "There's a great push to try to cut down the FDA," says Fred Dorey of the Bay Area Bioscience Center in Oakland, Calif...
...costs more than Peter Jennings' monthly car payment, unsure of herself? All those reporters who race to the scene of an airplane crash and shove their tape recorders in the faces of the survivors and ask them how they feel--those rude and ravenous news vultures are really quivering Jell-O molds of unease and self-doubt? Even Mike Wallace...
...WHOLE LOTTA SHAKIN' GOIN' ON Uh-oh, it's Jell-O. This year the gelatin dessert has its 100th birthday, and so in June its hometown of LeRoy, New York, opens an exhibit that will be part of a permanent museum. Trivia fact: an electroencephalogram shows that a human brain and a bowl of quivering lime Jell-O have the same waves...