Word: stun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think you're Star Trek literate just because you know that phasers can stun and that while Klingons used to be bad guys, now they're good (most of the time, anyway). But can you decipher the techno-babble that Enterprise crew members are constantly spouting? For some help, TIME consulted Michael Okuda, one of the Star Trek technical experts...
...SWAT team scrambled and moved out to O.J.'s Brentwood mansion in unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...
...week and the closing down of the USS Enterprise seemed as fitting a way as any to usher out the Class of 1994. Hardly a trekkie, I am nevertheless, quite easily seduced by the fantastic, especially if the temptress comes equipped with transporter beams or with phasers set on stun. So the ending of Star Trek was an event for me, something that meritted a mental paper clip, something to plan a day around. It caught me at the right time, too. I had finished my final exam in Matter in the Universe just a day before, and although...
Skiing: Amazing Americans Tommy Moe and Diann Roffe-Steinrotter stun the skiing world...
...1970s, he was incarcerated in a Soviet psychiatric ward and his name mentioned as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate. Soon after, he shocked supporters by recanting, on national TV, his entire code of beliefs. More than a decade later, he became Georgia's first freely elected President, only to stun everyone again, this time by forging a brutish dictatorship whose excesses provoked his own violent ouster. Last week, after a 20-month exile in which he fought an unsuccessful war to regain power, Zviad Gamsakhurdia carried out his most baffling flourish yet, shrouding his apparent death in the same jumble...