Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...decide whether to run for Governor or Senator, he began thinking about Morris. They had met a few months earlier, when the New Yorker was traveling the country pitching himself to politicians, fast-talking his way into their offices and dazzling them with his ideas about using polls to shape policy. Morris believed that key issues, if objectively researched and properly framed, could move segments of the electorate in predictable ways. "No feelings get into anything he does," recalls G.O.P. consultant Bob Goodman, who worked with Morris for years. "He's a supremely rational creature. He'll never stop into...
...chances of recovering some function. "It's important that patients not allow their muscles to atrophy," says Young. "I usually tell people that we have nothing yet to give you, but if I were you I'd start an exercise program to keep my body in good shape so that when the therapies come, I'll be ready...
...inch of the brain stem. He placed a wire under both lamina--the bony covering of the spinal cord. He took bone from Reeve's hip and squeezed it down to get a solid fit between the C1 and C2. Then he put in a titanium pin the shape of a tiny croquet wicket and fused the sublaminal wire with the first and second vertebrae. Finally, he drilled holes in Reeve's skull and passed the wires through to get a solid fusion...
...state-supported Virginia Military Institute unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation--which began in earnest in 1993 when the state-supported Citadel mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner, thinking she was male--was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when an out-of-sorts and out-of-shape Faulkner withdrew a year ago after less than a week, the victorious whooping of the other cadets was shown on national television. And even last week lawyers for both sides were still wrangling over such details as what to do about a pregnant cadet (kick her out when she can no longer...
...that some 16 million years ago, the slapstick asteroid A slammed into planet B (Mars, the fourth rock from the sun), dislodging spud-size meteorite C, which spitballed through space and whammed into planet D (Earth). Betimes, the alien microspud wakes up in the Antarctic and assumes the shape of an outlandishly hot idea, E (LIFE ON MARS!!!!), which pinballs hectically through Earthling media, knocking vases off the mantelpiece, toppling assumptions, causing tabloid amazement and theological consternation...