Word: plasma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mother, all big hair and rouge. Onscreen, I never see her until it's too late. "I'm a-coming to get you!" whoops the fortysomething office manager and designated mom-in-residence to id software's 13 staff members, as her footsteps grow louder. A burst of green plasma fire frags me, and I have to respawn. To frag is to kill, which Miss Donna does a lot of; to spawn is to be reborn, which I do a lot of. On the one occasion I manage to frag her, she taunts, "Oh, so your gun actually works, then...
...roll demands attention because it is made by losers who never got any before; pop is made by pretty boys and jocks and all the kids at Archie's Riverdale High, who have, y'know, problems and all, but never feel compelled to open up and bleed--actual plasma all pouring out over your chest as you scream incoherently--on stage, pace Iggy. Or just listen to "Search and Destroy" on the Stooge's Raw Power album: this is one of the most earnest and moving performances recorded. And so it's a total pleasure when Iggy follows...
...EXCHANGE A small but persuasive study suggests that a novel technique may help multiple sclerosis patients when standard therapies fail. It involves replacing a subject's own blood plasma with an artificial substitute. Symptoms eased or vanished in 42% of those studied. Caveat: it was tried only on patients having an acute flare-up, not those with chronic, progressive...
...American surgeon Charles Drew devises a method for long-term storage of blood plasma, which can then be used for transfusions...
Recently, researchers studying satellite images of the sun have paid special attention to great, S-shaped twists of plasma called sigmoids that they now believe are an early stage of CME formation. Find a sigmoid, and within a few days you'll probably see an explosion. Since it takes an additional four days for the solar tsunami to reach Earth, you can double today's early-warning time...