Word: thin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smattering of physics students defied scientific law last winter. They created a professor out of thin air--in a prank that CUE Guide Editor-in-Chief Ona M. Hahs '99 says "hoodwinked the entire University administration...
...while to absorb. As the parents, who turn out to be his neighbors, grieve, Dwight goes about his business with a sinking feeling, getting used to the role of villain in a script he can't remember writing. "Between the dense, mounded pectoral muscles there was the breastbone, thin and brittle, and I put my thumb against it, on the spot where the right front of my car would have...
...also taken to vigorous workouts. "She's so enthused about her state-of-the-art exercise equipment," says a former aide, "that she talks about it as if she's hosting an infomercial." When you've lost control of so much around you, you can at least get thin...
...wonderful thing. But before you dash out for doughnuts: "Many people have genetics that lead to a huskier look, and often that huskiness is not fat. [But] there are people we all know who used to be fat, then permanently changed their life-styles, and are now thin." says Dr. David Heber of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition. Obesity most definitely increases risk of heart disease, Heber adds...
...controversy over Jupiter's rings is over. The process that created them, however, is not. Cornell University researchers announced Tuesday that the gossamer-thin disks, first discovered by the Voyager spacecraft in 1979, were in fact space dust thrown up by micrometeorites bombarding the inner moons of Jupiter; they are not, as previously thought, particles of a moon that died or never had a chance to form. The bombardment, says TIME space writer Jeffrey Kluger, continues even now: "These moons continue to be pummeled." It's a good thing, too. "The rings need to be refreshed periodically," Kluger explains. "Otherwise...