Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Customs Commissioner RAY KELLY is adding agents and money to his agency's strategic-investigations unit because of Chinese efforts to smuggle out advanced U.S. weapons components and know-how. Last month agents thwarted China's second attempt to obtain military gyroscopes used in guidance systems for "smart" munitions, missiles and fighter aircraft. More customs cases are under way involving Chinese efforts to pilfer so-called critical technologies. FBI counterespionage specialists fear that the problem of spying isn't confined to Chinese visitors to the national labs. The FBI is taking a hard look at activities by scientists from several...
Meet three blind mice: an unhappily married thirtysomething couple--he's a nearly successful actor, she's an actress ignominiously turned brownie baker--and their gay best friend, a former dancer who's now an ineffectual social worker. Smart and smart-alecky, none of them know how to shift the course of their sorry lives. A young stranger shows up at the Los Angeles bungalow they're temporarily sharing. Secrets are revealed, life choices are examined, change is attempted. With passion and humor, Grant's sinewy off-Broadway drama digs deep into the souls of characters whose problems...
...Cousteau had dreamed of a career as a French navy aviator until a near fatal automobile crash dashed those hopes--and serendipitously led him to his true vocation. Taking up swimming to strengthen his broken arms, Cousteau fell in love with the sea. "Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course," he later wrote. "It happened to me on that summer's day when my eyes were opened...
...know a discipline has arrived when its detractors start depicting themselves as radicals assaulting the intellectual status quo. This fall John Horgan (The End of Science) will come out with a book that, according to its publisher's catalog, "boldly contradicts all standard views" of psychology, "including those of Steven Pinker and E.O. Wilson." Ah, vindication at last...
...technique to show that the nebula was nearly a million light-years away, far beyond the bounds of the Milky Way. It's now known to be the full-fledged galaxy closest to our own in a universe that contains tens of billions of galaxies. "I do not know," Shapley wrote Hubble in a letter quoted by biographer Christianson, "whether I am sorry or glad to see this break in the nebular problem. Perhaps both." (Hubble was not entirely magnanimous in victory. To the end he insisted on using the term nebulae instead of Shapley's preferred galaxies...