Word: leake
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outage, which set off fire alarms and lasted for seven hours, started when a water leak caused a short circuit in the building's power facilities, according to Bill Schaller, a public information officer at the Medical School...
MISSION Find land mines. Explosive devices leak small amounts of chemicals into the air. Researchers hope that by analyzing the chemical content in a hive, they can determine if explosives are in the area...
...pink. He walks on all fours--a major cybernetic achievement, I'm told. He wags his tail freely and waves a paw cheerily. He can spin his limbs around, get to his feet when he's lying on his back--another giant leap for robotkind--and take a virtual leak. But AIBO can be willful too. His eyes go red if you pat him too hard. If he can't quite reach his hot-pink ball, he will freak out. And if you take the ball away, he pauses for a second before rotating his head toward you with just...
...during this period that Gergen was nicknamed "the Sieve" for his willingness to leak details to the press. Gergen later acknowledged that he was a source for the account written by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of the days preceding Nixon's resignation...
...behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...