Word: leaping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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CAPTION: RECORD LEAP...
While it may seem like a long leap -- both culturally and conceptually -- from the steaming jungles of Viet Nam to the concrete canyons of Manhattan, Stone had his problems with both. "I don't like to work in an office," he complains. "Being under fluorescent light for two weeks is almost equivalent to being under 105 degrees sun in the Philippines." Stone is not the only Platoon veteran who thinks so. Charlie Sheen traded his M-16 for an M.B.A. to play an overeager stockbroker named Bud Fox. The actor found the white-collar trenches of Gotham "much worse. When...
Even so, most analysts expect the number of U.S. robotmakers to keep shrinking through the mid-1990s. By that time robotics technology may have taken another impressive leap forward, with the U.S. once again expected to be the technological trailblazer. Advances now being explored in American universities and research laboratories could lead to the creation of machines capable of walking, improvising tasks and seeing (some robots can already do this crudely, through computerized video cameras). By then, the robots' masters may have learned how to exploit their wondrous inventions without falling into the kind of painful doldrums that now afflict...
...constellation of devices that can assume some heart, lung, kidney and even digestive functions for full-term babies born with certain problems. Because the machines require the use of anticoagulants, they do not work for most preemies, who risk brain hemorrhages if given such drugs. But should technology leap this hurdle, it could reduce the viability standard to an absurdity. Asks David Rothman, professor of social medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons: "Are we then going to say to women, 'Either you keep the fetus inside of you, or we'll take it out and keep...
...with an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film A Patch of Blue and subsequently co-starred in The Group (1966), The Fixer (1968) and Walking Tall (1973), as well as a 1969 Broadway revival of Thornton Wilder's Our Town; in an apparent suicide leap from her fifth-floor apartment; in Pittsburgh. Hartman was an outpatient of a Pittsburgh psychiatric hospital, where she was being treated for depression that reportedly stemmed from the decline of her acting career...