Word: marte
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contrast, the Kodak-Intel Picture CD is simple and fun. You drop off your 35-mm or APS film at a participating photo center (Walgreen's, Wal-mart, CVS, Target or Eckerd Drug, to name a few) and pay $10 or so more than you would for print-only processing. The Picture CD package you get back includes a contact sheet, a set of paper prints and a CD with digital renderings of your photos. Put the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive, and you'll see the images displayed in an interface that looks like a magazine...
...stockholders) were giddy. The money-losing online bookseller Amazon.com long ago blew past venerable Sears in terms of market value. At the time, investors gasped and marveled. They kept buying, but at least they noticed. By April, though, Amazon's worth was fast approaching that of Sears and Wal-Mart combined, and nobody was paying attention...
...tycoon --William Levitt, creator of suburbia --Lucky Luciano, criminal mastermind --Louis B. Mayer, Hollywood mogul --Charles Merrill, advocate of the small investor --Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony --Walter Reuther, labor leader --Pete Rozelle, football-league commissioner --David Sarnoff, father of broadcasting --Juan Trippe, aviation entrepreneur --Sam Walton, Wal-Mart dynamo --Thomas Watson Jr., IBM president...
...finally bring Gloria Estefan to the White House to discuss gun control--which will no doubt encourage Brandy to attend some House Judiciary meetings--but it also forced other celebrities to tell us their political opinions. Rosie O'Donnell, who does ads for the rifle-selling K Mart chain, yelled at Tom Selleck for doing an ad for the N.R.A. The next week O'Donnell allegedly asked guest Bernadette Peters, who was going to sing on Rosie's show, to change some lyrics to a song from Annie Get Your Gun. O'Donnell denies she made this request...
Sources--Good News: New England Journal of Medicine (5/13/99); Archives of General Psychiatry (5/99); Bad News: Wal-Mart, New England Journal of Medicine (5/13/99...