Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from time to time--how it tore America apart--remember it with a wincing clarity; Vietnam can be appallingly fresh in the mind. The other day I was shocked to talk to a young man who had no idea what the Tet offensive was. How could he not know?, I wondered, illogically. In those days (Tet was early 1968), we opened the mailbox to get the paper, and the news jumped out like rattlesnakes...
Reporters who wouldn't know an offside trap from a lobster pot were now descending on the team's lone media rep demanding exclusives. David Letterman pronounced himself "team owner" and began plugging away. Even Tom Brokaw went West for an on-the-scene report...
...Kids know that my daughter and I have different last names, but they often forget mine. They know that as an unmarried woman, I'm not a Mrs. Yet Miss doesn't seem right for a mom, and I dislike Ms. For years I did what many parents do--I asked my daughter's friends to call me by my first name. We parents claim it's simpler that way. The truth is that we think the informality will keep us young and cool and prevent us from becoming our parents. Instead, we become the reluctant peers of our kids...
Should you play the Son of Cisco game at home? I don't think so. First, you have to be awfully nimble, because you never know when the son will turn prodigal, and most of these smaller companies are niche players battling Cisco on only one or two fronts. Second, what makes Cisco truly great is its management. These other companies are unproven. Third, only one company has ever really competed against Cisco hand to hand without getting crushed--Ascend, which just got bought by Lucent. If you insist on a Cisco relative, Lucent, an East Coast rival, might...
This is the hardest kind of story for me to write. It's about a real advance in basic research on Alzheimer's. I know all too well that there are millions of people desperate for news of a treatment or a cure for this terrible disease. I also know that it can take five years or more for basic research--which is to say, experiments performed in test tubes or on laboratory animals--to be turned into safe and effective drugs. And that's only if there are no major setbacks or surprises. More often than not, these...