Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...times each year, Cambridge residents are confronted with a glass full of brown, murky liquid...
...seems to be the rule of the day -- clearer is better. Manufacturers of all sorts of products are convinced that consumers equate transparent with natural and healthy. Result: products like clear dishwashing liquid and clear roll-on deodorant. Soft-drink titan Coca-Cola has invented a colorless version of its classic diet soda Tab, while rival Pepsico has struck back with "Crystal" equivalents of regular and Diet Pepsi, as sweet as ever but clear as water...
...solution in water, and all the spider does is squirt it out through a small hole. In the process, proteins that were soluble turn into insoluble fibers. Now, isn't that amazing?" Just as amazing is Viney's discovery that spider silk in its soluble phase forms a liquid crystal rather like the displays on digital wristwatches...
...biggest electric power consumption in a notebook comes from the CPU, the hard disk, and the liquid crystal display, or ICD, screen, Most modern notebooks to run as long as possible on a single charge, have some sort of power management, with or without the help of a 386SI. A software driver determines which devices have bean idle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (NH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longer life than the more common and lest expensive nickel cadmider...
...Senegal. When pressed, he swears on his "honor as a Christian and a chief" that his available funds amount to "no more than $10 million." He does concede, however, that this absurdly low figure does not include his foreign real estate holdings and other assets he does not consider liquid...