Word: stine
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This disparity can be partly explained by the sudden drop in inflation, says Glen Stine, senior Penn budget official from 1982 to 1990, who is currently vice president for finance at the University of Colorado. "Nobody believed inflation would come down as much as it did, so you were always making projections of inflation that were perhaps too high." But from 1982 to 1989--long enough, presumably, for Penn's analysts to adjust to the new inflationary landscape--Penn's tuition hikes consistently outstripped inflation, rising annually from two to four times as fast...
Interactive adventures don't get much better than Dreamworks' scary new title, Goosebumps, based on the book series by R.L. Stine. Kids nine and up can explore a haunted village and solve clues as they try to find a way out. Video clips of the cd-rom's main character, Lizzy, and her friends add a realistic touch to the adventure, while visits to haunts like the Full Moon Cafe--with its menu of scrambled brains and blood pudding--add to the eeriness. The game mixes parent-stumping logic puzzles with a rich landscape that kids will find endlessly intriguing...
...burgeoning environmental major could be the evidence Ruden stine is looking...
...freestyle. But when it counted, it was like an out-of-body experience." It was a sad parenthesis in the wacky competition that combines hotdogging exhibitionism with athletic zeal. American Liz McIntyre, a Dartmouth graduate, captured a silver medal by executing a Daffy Twister jump, while winner Stine Lise Hattestad of Norway performed a Cossack -- an aerial ballet split on skis, as did the men's mogul winner, Canadian Jean-Luc Brassard. Each race was introduced by a recorded rooster's loud "cock-a-doodle...
...Stine, 49, who turns out a thriller a month and has 7.5 million copies of his 27-part Fear Street series in print, agrees that such books mean no harm. "Part of the appeal is that they're safe scares. You're home in your room and reading. The books are not half as scary as the real world." At the same time, Stine also implies that the real world needs embellishment; his challenge, he says, is "to find new cheap thrills" for his young readers. "I mean disgusting, gross things to put in the book that they'll like...