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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given a potentially world-changing new technology, what does your modern-day greedy capitalist do? Build a theme park! That Barnumesque observation (a tad dated in this age of tech multibillionaires) isn't the only thing that's overfamiliar in this dull time-travel tale from the author of Jurassic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Timeline By Michael Crichton | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

In another country, or in lesser hands, a teenager's addiction to work could be a subject for comedy; the Dar-denne brothers turn it into tragedy and transcendence. But this dour, powerful film might be just an anecdote without Dequenne, 18. She invests Rosetta with the weird ferocity of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Good Work | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

MINITEL MINI-STROKE A French psychiatrist became temporarily blind in one eye and could barely speak--classic signs of a mini-stroke--after talking on the phone for an hour with the receiver tucked between his head and neck. Physicians believe the torqued position tore a neck artery that supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

COUCH POTATOES ARISE...SLOWLY Thought you'd never hear something bad about exercise? Try this. Sedentary folks who suddenly take up vigorous activity, like jogging or heavy lifting, have an astounding 30-fold increased risk of suffering a heart attack within the first hour. The jolt of exertion, though well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Your Health: Nov. 22, 1999 | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

Tightrope walkers, this story's not for you; keyboard bashers, listen up. A federal proposal announced Monday would protect millions of American workers at risk of on-the-job injury - but it's not the construction workers or miners who have been at the center of previous legislation. The types...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Light at the End of the Carpal Tunnel? | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

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