Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...persisted, contributing $1.5 million for a female science professor's post at Skidmore College in New York State and funding a lecture series and prize for women at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. The institute wants to build a women's health center. "Now they want to know who I know," she says, laughing, "because they know it'll be women who fund...
...gourmands and that preparing dinner healthily need not be time consuming: "In Europe they work all day too, but they somehow manage." This may be a tough sell in the U.S., where warming a TV dinner in the oven instead of the microwave constitutes leisurely dining. But Americans should know this: Sun Crest peaches taste lousy frozen...
...goalie can carry a not-so-hot team, but it will be difficult for him to lift the Sabres, who finished the regular season with a 37-28-17 record. "I'm not a big believer that one guy can win a championship," says Wayne Gretzky, who would know, "but there's no question in my mind that he single-handedly won the gold medal for one country." Broadcaster John Davidson, a former All-Star goalie, says Hasek's style isn't as spastic as it looks. "I think he flops with something in mind. Every one of them...
...saints may sit beside us in the library and devils may drive BMWs and work in the pizza parlor and leave no telltale trail of ash as they go about their work, if we just find ourselves asking questions we haven't had occasion to ask before, we will know more than we did three weeks ago, and be wiser...
...understand how, it helps to know two facts familiar to every Baltimore fan. The Orioles have the third highest payroll ($80 million) in major league baseball. And they have the American League's worst record. That's the kind of capitalist contradiction that Fidel Castro loves to exploit. Dirt poor but sports crazed, Cuba boasts one of the world's richest lodes of baseball talent--and proved it in Baltimore, as its stars savaged Oriole pitchers for 18 hits. (Mercifully, the Cubans, who use aluminum bats at home, had only a month to train with wooden ones...