Word: lures
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Moses himself had come thundering into Washington, his shiny brand-new Cadillac easily parting a group of curious onlookers. He spoke of the tantalizing lure of the "counterculture" versus the redemption of school prayer. He grimly warned of the perilous state of civilization--unless, of course, the country embraced his Ten Commandments, otherwise known as "Contract with America...
...surprise in recent weeks when reports again swept Wall Street that IBM was about to make a substantial investment in Apple, or perhaps even buy the company. As a team, Apple and IBM could develop a universal operating system for their current and future desktop computers that could lure customers from Microsoft. "Right now it's like Switzerland," says Tim Bajarin, president of Creative Strategies Research International, which studies the computer industry. "You've got four different languages -- Apple's Mac OS, IBM's OS/2 and Unix, and Microsoft's Windows NT -- all looking for a single vehicle to work...
...year-old Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla. Born in Bombay and educated in Vienna, Daruwalla practices orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Every so often he puts in a stint at the Hospital for Crippled Children in Bombay, but it is not just these young patients who lure him back to India. The doctor has developed an interest in finding a genetic marker for a form of dwarfism; to pursue his research he must draw blood from dwarfs, and a good supply of these can be found among the clowns who perform at the various circuses...
...population of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana totals only 1.3 million people, nearly all of whom live in coastal cities. Up to now the city dwellers have put little pressure on the forests or the few thousand indigenous Amerindians who live in the woodlands. But economic hardship and the lure of logging revenue have begun to make the region's natural treasures more vulnerable...
...area so close to the North Pole is the nearness of Canada. A few hours of driving can take you out of the country all together and into the land of Quebee separatists, great hockey teams and single-payer medicine. Even Crimson editors are not immune to the lure, as these four found out earlier this summer...