Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makeshift clay oven which uses cowdung cakes for fuel, has the oven blow up on him, salvages the remnants, eats them and promptly falls sick since the vegetables were rotten in the first place due to poor quality controls in agricultural production and no food packaging industry to speak...
...light and apparently "develops" as a human playmate gets to know it. Indeed, California inventor David Hampton was inspired by the nurture-intensive electronic Tamagotchis he saw at the Toy Fair last year. One Furby advantage over the Tamagotchi: it doesn't die. Instead, the Furby "learns" to speak English, and it can teach a child Furbish, concocted by Hampton from Japanese, Thai, Hebrew and Mandarin Chinese. (Lesson One: "kah a-tay" means "I'm hungry.") Hampton sees his Furbies as the Adams and Eves of a grander world of interactive electronics. All for about...
...Poppins and Victor, Victoria was assured that her singing ability would return within six weeks of the operation. Eighteen months later, her husband told Parade magazine, "If you heard [her voice], you'd weep." Edwards says he is developing a Broadway project for his wife, but if she cannot speak, the show...
MONDAY, NOV. 16 Rodman's agent, Dwight Manley, says Rodman "was intoxicated to the point that [he] couldn't speak" at the wedding and accuses Electra of taking advantage of him. But the marriage survives...
...drug that's been used for more than a half-century, we know surprisingly little about how Ritalin acts on the brain or why it helps children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder focus. For that matter, even ADHD is still something of a mystery to doctors, who speak of it sometimes as if it were a single condition and sometimes as if it were a broad range of problems. Researchers suspect that the disorder stems from an inadequate supply of dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain--a hypothesis that is supported in part by the fact that Ritalin boosts dopamine...