Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They didn't know how easy it was to crisscross the thin metal rods. But the Air Force knew: in 1986 and 1991 mechanics at other bases had made the same error. Their F-15 pilots were saved from certain death only because an alert ground crew and one pilot noted the flaps weren't moving properly before takeoff. But as Major Donald Lowry Jr., 36, prepared to fly on May 30, 1995, no one noticed the snafu. So Lowry's plane, instead of being lifted into the sky that Memorial Day morning, was pushed into the runway and disintegrated...
...high school, I was never anxious about getting injured when I went to a soccer game. Barring any freak sideline collision, my metal folding chair was relatively safe from harm. I took my high school sports seriously; I posted the schedules for all the teams on my bulletin board and lugged around my padded chair, which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets...
...first idea researchers have explored is broadly thought of as the cellular-damage model of aging. For any complex system--whether it's made of inorganic metal or protoplasmic goo--the mere act of doing the work it was designed to do carries a price. No sooner does the hardware begin operating than its parts begin wearing out and its journey to the junkyard begins. Cells are not spared this fate, and one of the functions that takes the most out of them is the job of processing food...
...what we've learned. The voters couldn't have learned a lot, unless they were unaware that education is good and drugs are bad. Future candidates, however, will take away meaning. For instance: Don't discuss entitlements in the heat of a campaign. It's like putting metal in a microwave. Small fires break out, and dousing is not only exhausting but may also elicit promises that cannot be kept and make serious reform even more difficult. This is why Washington invents commissions...
...they took that," says lawyer L. Lin Wood. The explosion? "Richard doesn't have a clue what they are talking about, except that he burns trash, and it could have been an aerosol can," says Wood. He points out that a government memorandum states that investigators could find no metal fragments near where the explosion supposedly took place. The boast "I'm going to be famous"? The government memorandum says the colleagues who allegedly heard this comment are still being sought, and Wood is convinced that whoever mentioned it heard about it secondhand. Taking a break? Jewell was going...