Word: splitting
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...more appropriate lab in which to study the Jesse phenomenon than the Mall of America, which is referred to by all six or seven cynics in Minnesota as the Fall of America. On an upper level there's a Planet Hollywood next to a Hooters. Several Hooters waitresses are split on Jesse's virtues...
...progress was expected from a U.N. Security Council consultation over the future of UNSCOM. "Everyone's waiting for Washington to send a signal on how it wants to proceed after the bombing, but we haven't done that," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "The Security Council is split over sanctions and the future of UNSCOM, but diplomats at the U.N. also believe that Washington itself is divided and that there's no clear policy." Iraq, for its part, is happy to use continued U.S. strikes in its campaign to drum up Arab support...
With the introduction of electronic access cards in 1992, it became possible for the administration to track electronically every keycard swipe made at the University. In the split second between swiping your card at a dorm entrance, vending machine or library photocopier and getting a pleasing green light, your ID is checked against records, and the time and location of your swipe is recorded. Of course, the records are kept confidential, and unless the Harvard Police or Ad Board has good reason to believe that you've broken a major rule or committed a crime, nobody will ever know that...
DIED. CATHAL GOULDING, 75, I.R.A. leader; in Dublin, Ireland. Goulding helped revive the I.R.A. in 1945, and while serving as its chief of staff, he attempted to move the group away from military confrontation. In 1972 he called a cease-fire, creating a split between his Official I.R.A. branch and the Provisional I.R.A., which sought continued armed strife...
Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing power. It's time to ring in the century of biotechnology. Just as the discovery of the electron in 1897 was a seminal event for the 20th century, the seeds for the 21st century were spawned in 1953, when James Watson blurted out to Francis Crick how four nucleic acids could pair to form the self-copying code of a DNA molecule. Now we're just a few years away from one of the most important breakthroughs of all time...