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Word: m (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suddenly no Nazis in Germany after V-E day, there are now apparently almost no former popular high school kids. "I very much identified myself as an outsider [in high school]," says Katims. "I was king of the geeks," says Manchester Prep creator Roger Kumble. "I totally think I'm a geek," says Leslie Bibb, who plays a knockout cheerleader on Popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Their Major Is Alienation | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

Some day I hope to get my hands on Apple's new G4, a desktop computer so fast that the company, at least, says it is really a supercomputer that can't be exported to hostile countries. I'm not sure what I'll do with so much power--probably work toward world peace or play poker, as usual. Still, it'll be a comfort. In the meantime, I've been sampling the latest, fastest chip off the block: a 650-MHz Athlon, from Advanced Micro Devices. The new chip, also known as the K7, is slated to ship later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racing Chips | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...years old, play golf three times a week, spend two to three hours a day on my computer and enjoy my new, medium-format camera. I'm a legislative representative for my union. My wife also leads a very active social life. So take heart, seniors. Old age doesn't have to be a rest home or doom and gloom. HAL MCCLINTOCK Pasadena, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 20, 1999 | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...Mehaffey seemed genuinely concerned, so I took a deep breath and decided to tell her everything. "You're going to think I'm a hypochondriac," I began. "But you know, around the same time this eye problem started, I also developed these bumps along the side of my face..." I brushed my hair aside so Dr. Mehaffey could see. She looked at the bumps and then at me. "It sure looks like shingles," she said. I listed other odd things I'd noticed--the red line snaking down my forehead, the tingling sensation at the end of my nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stealthy Virus | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

...m kind of hairy. What others would call my waist, I call "the line of demarcation." It marks the division between my normal torso and my fur-coated lower body, like some sort of poorly conceived Greek mythical creature. I tried getting rid of some of my body hair once before, when I first started getting chest hairs and would pluck them out. I stopped not because of the pain but because my chest began to look like Manuel Noriega's face. A taut, muscular version of Noriega's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaving the Body, Fantastic | 9/20/1999 | See Source »

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