Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watching a ball game. The 3-D effects are what game pros call immersive, that is, real enough to make you forget the 4-ft. space between you and your TV. Nintendo's smart-chip technology, blended with terrific software, has created a virtual world so compelling that the plastic game box moves from novelty to full-fledged revelation...
...found nothing. One thing that did catch their eyes, however, was a small area at the tip of chromosomes that had no discernible purpose. Dubbed a telomere, the sequence of nucleic acids did not appear to code for any traits. Instead it resembled nothing so much as the plastic cuff at the end of a shoelace that keeps the rest of the strand from unraveling...
...World," where abortion rights would be curtailed, assault weapons plentiful and--a cornerstone of his campaign--the income tax would be replaced by a regressive national sales tax. Jenkins, who made a name for himself in the legislature by sponsoring a "shoot-the-burglar" law and carrying a plastic fetus to abortion debates, made no attempt to temper his conservative views. He counted on the rising Republican tide in the state and strong support from groups such as the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America to put him over the top. Landrieu's win shows that even...
Always he carried his white plastic ice bucket, the relic of a revolutionary agenda, of his achievement in ending the twice-a-day ice deliveries to congressional offices. The bucket stops here. It had become an inadvertently pathetic symbol...
Back in 1960, though, Kennedy and Nixon were scorned as the plastic products of professional packaging, exemplars of what one journalist labeled "the Smooth Deal," so much alike that Democratic partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. rushed into print a pamphlet titled Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference...