Word: selecter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Many heroines in these confections never get to the first kiss. For boys there are thrillers like Your Code Name Is Jonah in Bantam's Choose Your Own Adventure series. These are not traditional adventure narratives. Like Dungeons and Dragons, they allow teen and preteen readers to select their own plots. In The Abominable Snowman, for instance, the reader is a Mount Everest climber searching for the yeti with a friend named Carlos. The friend, however, is missing. "If you decide to search for Carlos, turn to page 5," instructs the book. "If you decide that Carlos...
...headaches. High-pressure salesmen have flocked in, bringing with them direct-mail promotions that lure unsuspecting customers to distant resorts with promises of expensive-sounding sweepstakes gifts. Then the customers are cajoled into buying time-share condos at high interest rates. Says Democrat Claude Pepper of Florida, whose House Select Committee on Aging has been holding hearings related to abuses in the industry: "Many of these offerings are legitimate. But a high percentage of them turn out to be frauds...
...select group of 15 U.S. Army officers went to Livermore, Calif, last year to do what no one had done since Hiroshima and Nagasaki: set off nuclear weapons in a battlefield situation. The action took place, TRON-like, entirely with in the circuitry of a large research computer, but the officers sitting in front of the machine's display screens were not just playing video games. They were in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Pentagon's request to test the world's most powerful combat simulator. The fate of the earth after the fall out cleared...
...opposition" in Congress all for eager to rubber-stamp these policies, as long as they can sign their names to those bills that represent pork barrel to their constituents, and support the rest...anonymously. Perhaps the next step will be a government of total anonymity, for which voters will select nameless candidates--Brand A or Brand B--on the basis of unattributed empty slogans and hollow promises, and anonymous records of supporting shameful legislation. The identities of these noble statesmen need be revealed only to the one constituency which might be expected to appland the kinds of policies...
...There is a Nobel Prize for the person who figures out how the viruses select their prey," says Immunologist Paul Wiesner at the Centers for Disease Control, and "a second prize for the person who can figure out the latency of the virus: Just how does it select that perfect hiding place where it can stay for years without being destroyed by the immunological system?" Atlanta Virologist Andre Nahmias, one of the two scientists who discovered Type 2 in the late 1960s, predicts that it will be another seven to ten years before researchers find a way to prevent recurrent...