Word: loops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which opened--after a year's delay to get all the kinks out--at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, Calif. It is the tallest (415 ft.) and fastest (100 m.p.h.) roller coaster ever built. Chang, which opened in April in Louisville's Kentucky Kingdom, claims the "tallest vertical loop for any roller coaster" (121 ft.), while a new ride 200 ft. tall at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pa., is distinguishing itself as "the tallest, longest and fastest steel roller coaster on the East Coast." The Great White at Sea World of Texas in San Antonio is that...
...sculpture installation titled "Attention's Loop," by 1996-97 Bunting Fellow Elizabeth King, will also be on exhibit at the Institute throughout the weekend...
...loop, I recognized the names of only six of your silly 25 Most Influential. Last year I recognized eight. But I can't remember who they were, and neither does anyone else. JOYCE TRACKSLER Bedford, New Hampshire...
That new insight may be the dopamine hypothesis' most important contribution in the fight against drugs. It completes the loop between the mechanism of addiction and programs for treatment. And it raises hope for more effective therapies. Abstinence, if maintained, not only halts the physical and psychological damage wrought by drugs but in large measure also reverses...
...have been too much for a prideful man. Last Dec. 7, some time after A Matter of Honor had been sent to the publisher--and been accepted--Izzi's body, wearing a bullet-proof vest, was found hanging outside the window of his 14th-floor office above Chicago's Loop. The rope slip-knotted around the corpse's neck passed back through the window, and was tied to the leg of a desk. On the floor was a loaded revolver. A hole, as if from a struggle, was bashed in one plasterboard office wall, but the office was locked from...