Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Seems the U.S Forest Service thought the rocks along a road in Washington's Cascade Mountains didn't look, well, natural enough. The service was going to spray them with a liquid mixture of iron and manganese, until a public outcry over wasting $37,000 to do it forced second thoughts. The Forest Service now says it will let the Mother Nature work on the rocks for a year before making a decision on whether they look weathered enough...
Willett explained that trans-fatty acids are "a group of artificial fats [produced when] manufacturers take liquid vegetable oil and [change] the fats from liquid to solid so they can be used in margarine and shortening...
...into seats and see a huge hideous monster writhing in a plastic tube. Then the alien escapes--and the lights go out. Heavy footsteps approach, and your seat gets a violent rattle. You feel the creature's breath and reptilian tongue on the back of your neck. An icky liquid drenches you; is it someone's exploding guts or your own fear-sweat? The experience is divinely cheesy: 3-D radio, aiming only to scare you nuts. And it works; the crowd happily screams along...
...135A aircraft crashed. As in the case of the June 1994 crash you described, this plane was practicing for an air show. The casualties might have been far greater than the six who were killed: the plane crashed into a field surrounded on three sides by maintenance buildings, near liquid oxygen-service areas and directly across from the base's main shopping facility, which was filled with people. The Air Force must seriously re-evaluate its safety rules for air-show activities. Too many good pilots have been killed over the years practicing for them. A great many accidents could...
...history, questions it and eventually is questioned by it: "What race am I? What races hate me?" The big network likes Mozart and knows "something about the Dreyfus case and the Boer War" but is ignorant of such things as "corks stuck in bottles, the surface of a liquid reflection ... wrappers and price tags, up versus down, the effects of hunger ..." The hero comes to think of the computer as female and calls it Helen...