Word: spells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the Pacific winds are a crucial boost, they are also what makes this the most dangerous leg of the journey: Right now the balloonists are headed straight for a weather pattern that could spell serious trouble for the helium-and-hot-air craft, just as it did for team member Steve Fossett, who fell thousands of feet and was nearly killed by a storm in the South Pacific during his last ballooning attempt. Shipping traffic gets pretty sparse in the vast reaches of the Pacific, and no one wants to find out how long it would take...
Does this spell the end of the humble aspirin? Not likely. Cox-1, which aspirin blocks, causes the blood clots that can lead to heart disease. Needham thinks many of us will end up popping a baby aspirin every day for our tickers and taking cox-2 inhibitors for big jobs like toothache and back pain. Sounds painless enough...
...exhibition also contains advance posters for variety of acts as varied as goats that could spell, animals that could count and canaries that could feign death...
...forth and sin no more. The court could start by undoing Microsoft's past bad acts--striking down its coercive contracts with other companies and forcing it to unbundle the Internet Explorer browser that it has built into its Windows operating system. Judge Jackson could then spell out what Microsoft can and can't do in the future. He could personally monitor Microsoft's behavior, much as Judge Harold Greene oversaw AT&T for more than a decade after the breakup of the phone company...
...Does CGI spell the end of the old school? Not by a long shot: the ease with which the crudely drawn two-dimensional, or 2-D, worlds of South Park and The Simpsons have won over America's couch-potato masses is proof that story matters more than even the most eye-popping special effects. "Sooner or later, all this stuff is going to seem antiquated," admits Andrew Stanton, the co-director and screenwriter of A Bug's Life. "The script is the only thing that isn't going to deteriorate over time...