Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Associate Professor of Radiology Ralph Weissleder and three colleagues published a report of their work in the April issue of the journal Nature Biotechnology...
...eleven teenagers who maintained the site are students at Field High School in a small town called Brimfield. According to an Associated Press report, their web site was "filled with images of dragons and castles and dark poetry," and it referred to the Littleton massacre explicitly, although hardly in positive terms: "I wonder how long it'll be before we're allowed to wear our trenchcoats anymore. You know those screwed up kids in Colorado were wearing them, so that means I will also kill someone, and so will all my friends." MORE...
...roommate by firing off an e-mail reminder to clean up for the cleaning lady. But then I had trouble. For two days, the website wouldn't come up on my Mac at work. One day my horoscope didn't show up, and another day the local weather report (usually in the screen's upper right corner) was missing. The novelty was wearing thin, and I was back to Post-it notes for writing down appointments...
...threat that was almost surely serious took place in Wimberley, Texas, where four 14-year-old boys were arrested April 23 for allegedly plotting to blow up Danforth Junior High School. Though the plot was initiated well before the Colorado massacre, Littleton was probably what spurred fellow students to report the boys after overhearing them bragging. Authorities who searched their homes said they found gunpowder and bomb-building instructions downloaded from the Internet. The eighth-graders were charged with conspiracy to manufacture explosives and commit murder and arson...
...HEAVY Being overweight when you're over 65 may not be so bad after all, according to a German report that analyzed data on 6,000 men and women. Obese young and middle-aged folks have a greater risk of dying than the fit, but the danger seems to diminish as they grow older. Researchers even suggest that most adults can safely gain 10 lbs. every decade without cutting their life short...