Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Halloween memories go beyond candy and costumes. Of course I remember my various Halloween outfits, from pirate to plastic surgeon, and I can still tell you which house on Arrowhead Lane gives out the extra-large Nestle Crunch bars...
Some nations are beginning to realize the style over substance nature of American mass culture. Going to Disneyland is a fun diversion, but in a century, someone will laugh at those plastic mouse ears, the basis of an entire culture. Mickey Mouse in fact stands a better chance of lasting the century than the Quebecers in New England...
...work you've missed since September. If you must get out, explore the North End or Inman Square. And don't even think about the Grille. Almost anywhere ordinarily worth going will be clotted with 16-year-olds wearing Harvard sweatshirts so new they still reek of plastic...
...them badly burned, including the remains of at least five children. Earlier in the day two men identifying themselves as Jouret and Di Mambro had got a local locksmith to admit them to the house. Both fires had been set off by the same elaborate system, in which plastic bags of gasoline and containers of propane gas were linked by electrical wires to a telephone. Its ringing could provide the electrical charge to ignite a fireball...
...USDA's pathology division, "water is big business." So big, in fact, that Tyson alone would lose about $40 million in annual gross profits if the 8% rule were repealed. One study has shown that cross-contamination can be eliminated simply by placing the carcasses in sealed plastic bags during the chilling stage. That measure, however, would halt water absorption...