Word: screens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Katherine Hauser will never forget her first sight of Bobbi McCaughey's babies on the screen of the ultrasound machine. Hauser, a reproductive endocrinologist in Des Moines, Iowa, had been treating Bobbi for infertility, and the medication she'd prescribed had worked like a charm. Although it often takes repeated injections of ovulation-stimulating Metrodin to prime a woman's reluctant eggs for successful conception, Bobbi got pregnant on the first try. Hauser had warned Bobbi and her husband Kenny that a side effect of fertility drugs can be multiple births; in about 20% of cases, a woman who conceives...
...looks. And like the rest of a constantly bestartling supporting cast, led by Jon Voight and Danny DeVito as deliciously disparate masters of legal sleaze, they're terrific. Another good rule is not to take Grisham novels as seriously as the writer does when you bring them to the screen, and Coppola fulfills that imperative too. This one is about a big insurance company trying to cheat a poor family out of medical payments that might save a boy's life. Justice in this matter is eventually served, but with comic klutziness and realistic ambiguity...
...playing and dart-throwing staff members shuffling around in the background, looks like your parents' basement if you didn't have parents. And, like the new MTV, the station broadcasts live and focuses on music. Not everything the Canadian service does has been imported, however. MuchMusic features a wide-screen video booth, where young Canadians seem to have a penchant for exposing themselves...
...Macintosh, for instance, some programs add new extensions to the System Folder. While an extension by itself is a small file, each one gets run by the system at startup, forcing you to wait impatiently while several rows of icons fill the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen...
Other students complain about Pointcast, the screen saver offered as an option in some versions of the HASCS network installer. You probably won't miss up by removing this program if you're not using it. It takes a lot of resources on most computers, and you can get all the information-with fewer ads--from...