Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magnetar is a star that has run out of fuel and collapsed to form a neutron star--a ball of matter just a dozen miles across, so dense that a teaspoonful weighs tens of millions of tons. In rare instances, a neutron star can generate a magnetic field strong enough to shatter the star's metallic surface, sending high-energy X rays and gamma rays blasting into space...
...dreaming--the images look like TV cartoons--when the beeper goes off. It is 2:55 a.m. Marilyn Yopp, a police detectives' secretary in Jacksonville, N.C., suffers from thymoma, a rare cancer. She was admitted to the oncology floor recently with an even rarer symptom, a disfiguring full-body rash that, her sister Doris Del Castilho explains, "started as tiny flakes of skin and then got bigger and opened up like a flower." A few minutes ago, she asked Del Castilho to help her turn over in bed, when suddenly "her eyes rolled up. I heard them...
...self-portraits. They spoke with serious and playful poetry about her various loves, her life as a celebrity and her thoughts on society in general. With a palette of jazz-inflected colors and wide, icy lyrics, Mitchell wrote incisive melodies and illuminated phrases that stuck in the mind like rare sunshine. The albums of this period, like Court and Spark or The Hissing of Summer Lawns, were exquisitely composed for midnight listening sessions with intimate friends. Reveling in Joni's sexy jazz piano chords and perfect words, one could spend hours with her tender truth that we are all "caught...
...scandal! But that's not all. According to DeVore, these appendices of such rare and delicate quality are conveyed by diplomatic pouch to the U.S. and distributed through the Washington-Harvard network to only eight select Faculty members. "As you may imagine, the number of such appendices annually available to each of us is not generous," said DeVore, "But alas, I find my quota sufficient for my needs...
...soaring stock market has hit some turbulence. Long-time stock superstars like Coca-Cola, American Express, and Walt Disney have all recently taken dives. In response, our play-it-cool financial captain Alan Greenspan, as if in a fit of nostalgia for the early '90s, recently announced a rare cut in interest rates...