Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...trout are dead, the fishing is finished, and the tourist industry is suffering. A Southern Pacific tanker car derailed last week on a tricky canyon bridge six miles north of Dunsmuir, Calif., and spilled its contents into the river: 19,500 gal. of metam sodium, a liquid herbicide...
...currently. Many weight-loss clinics across the nation have closed or are failing. People are also losing their appetite for diet books. "The past couple of years have been relatively light on diet best sellers," says Stuart Applebaum of Bantam Books. Another reflection of the changing standards: makers of liquid and powder diets are avoiding bone-thin models and choosing heftier people to hawk their products. TV host Cristina Ferrare, Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda and ex-New York City mayor Ed Koch hardly qualify as sylphs...
More people are abandoning radical diets and instead are incorporating liquid meals and other dieting aids into their regular eating plans. A new survey by the Calorie Control Council shows that 60% of adult Americans who use diet products say they are not dieting, a reverse from a similar survey in 1986. Formal weight-loss programs now make a point of discussing improvements in health as well as decreasing girth. There are also lessons in realism. "We spend a lot of time working on the concept that managing this weight is going to be difficult," says Betsy Taylor of Health...
...arms elongate into gleaming spikes that impale people and latch onto moving cars. It can appear as a bulge in the floor, transforming itself into a humanoid that then proceeds to walk through a steel gate, its artificial skin oozing between the bars like melted butter. Frozen by liquid nitrogen, it is shattered into a thousand pieces, but its fragments congeal again into a glistening body of liquid chrome...
...series of tremors in the mountain, which indicate that molten rock, called magma, is coming up from deep inside the earth. The magma rises gradually, opening fissures that serve as its pipelines to the surface. What happens next depends on the composition of the magma. If it is fairly liquid, it generally produces a stately lava flow that poses more of a threat to property than to humans. Hawaiian volcanoes tend to follow this pattern...