Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Only an hour was left in the debate over Henry Foster's doomed nomination as Surgeon General last week when Senator Bob Smith, a beefy New Hampshire Republican, lumbered into the almost empty Senate chamber with a plastic fetus, an easel and six huge posters. For the next 30 minutes, he unnerved his colleagues--and the summer tourists who packed the galleries--with an excruciatingly detailed description of a medical procedure that abortion opponents call partial-birth abortion. "In illustration No. 4," Smith said calmly, "the abortionist takes a pair of scissors and inserts the scissors into the back...
...standing in line for hours to fill water containers, which would then be carted home in baby carriages, wheelchairs and trolleys. The war interfered with every act, even one as innocuous as looking out the window; most glass panes were shattered months ago and have been replaced by opaque plastic sheets...
...Grady had crashed in a cave-pocked, densely forested region used during World War II for that purpose by partisans evading the Nazis. The downed flyer had soon consumed the eight 4-oz. packs of water in his emergency kit. But he was able to catch rain in Ziploc plastic bags and at one point tried to squeeze water out of his wet woolen socks, without much luck. He found sustenance by eating leaves, grass and ants-but not too many of the latter. "They're hard to catch," he reported afterward. "He maintained his cool," said Admiral Leighton Smith...
...hard to imagine a human being who holds on to more odd items than Geller. Above his fireplace he has beanie caps with propellers on the top (required dress code for CS 50 teaching fellows, thanks to Geller); on his trunk lies an 8-inch plastic green locust and a roll of electric cable warning tape in Hebrew, English and Arabic. And we haven't even opened his drawers...
Software forging is a $2 billion black market in the U.S. alone. It costs little to turn out perfect copies of expensive software programs. The high cost of software comes from the years spent inventing it, not from the plastic and paper on which it is distributed. The full-service operation cracked last week, for instance, copied the disks, tagged them with holograms, and packaged them in shrink-wrapped boxes that included facsimiles of user's guides. Cost to the pirates: roughly $6 a unit. But each box would sell for as much as $200 to an unwitting-or unscrupulous...