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Word: orly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Biological weapons are a disgrace to biology. Most biologists haven't wanted to talk or even think about them. For years leading U.S. biologists were assuring themselves and the public that bioweapons don't work and aren't anything to worry about. It was a naive dream from the childhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What New Things Are Going To Kill Me? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Giving these laws an extra push will be the rise of tropical megacities--huge, densely packed cities in less developed nations. A U.N. study predicts that by the year 2015, there will be 26 extremely big cities on the planet, and 22 of them will be in less developed regions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What New Things Are Going To Kill Me? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

Now wire the bombs together. People travel rapidly by airplane, carrying diseases with them as they fly. The human species has become a biological Internet with fast connections. The bionet will only get faster in the next century--that is, more people will travel by air more often, increasing the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What New Things Are Going To Kill Me? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

The coming years will also see the demise of the quack-laden Office of Alternative Medicine, which seven years ago was foisted on the reluctant National Institutes of Health, largely at the insistence of Tom Harkin, the otherwise sensible Senator from Iowa who believes in the curative powers of bee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Will Happen To Alternative Medicine? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

The metaphorical answer to this question is more important than the literal, but the literal is irresistibly short: No, unfortunately not. Humans will have at our disposal as much gasoline as we can burn in the 21st century. Nor are we likely to run out of heating oil, coal or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will We Run Out Of Gas? | 11/8/1999 | See Source »

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