Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...incorrigible excesses of Mobutu's rule. Visitors to Kabila's headquarters, however, are struck by an even more telling reflection. Much like Mobutu's imprimatur these days, the elegance of his erstwhile estate is largely hollow. Almost everything that is ostensibly an objet d'art is fake--the marbleized plastic dining table, the plinths inlaid with artificial malachite, the spanking new Oriental rugs...
...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...
...Powell, the challenge isn't to attract offers--he gets a plastic Postal Service bin full of letters each day. The challenge is to separate the ideas that will work from other well-meaning but impractical ones. For instance, he likes American Express's summer program that pays teachers to train students in the travel-agency business. "I asked them to double it to 5,000 kids." He realized during his book tour that remaindered books get destroyed. "I told Harry Evans [his publisher at Random House] to figure a way to get these books to kids." He pulls...
Even that didn't defenestrate Capps. Version 1 failures only juice him. An inveterate inventor whose house in the foothills of San Carlos, California, is filled with homemade toys such as the Jaminator--a plastic guitar that permits users to jam, in key, with rock tunes etched into silicon chips--Capps thrives on the multi-iterated quest for perfection. "There's nothing better than doing version 2," he says, "and being able to go back and fix all your mistakes." No, what finally drove Capps out the door was Apple's inability to stay relevant, to reorient itself around...
...flesh. The main lesson to be learned from John is that people cannot be told how to feel about their sexuality. While most of us are irrevocably grounded in a clear sexual identity, some boys will always feel like girls, and vice versa, regardless of what society or plastic surgeons...