Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after he fled his Connecticut mansion, his financial empire crumbling, fugitive money manager and astrologist Martin Frankel was captured in Germany. "You got me," Frankel told German police and an FBI agent when they found him in his hotel room shortly before 9 a.m. local time. The amazing thing is that it took this long. For a meticulous man who had constructed what an investigator described as "one of the greatest scams successfully perpetrated in history," Frankel didn't act like someone who had put much thought into avoiding capture. Authorities say he spent several months in Europe...
...done the senior thesis procrastination thing, but right now I'm not doing that," Ali says. Otherwise, he's only had time for "planning the revolution," he says with a laugh...
...Which is all very well and good, but the question, as always in medical research, is what's in it for me, and when am I going to be able to order up smarter kids? Not right away. For one thing, there's a considerable difference between human and mouse brains, so developing any genetic therapy could take years. More important, learning and memory are influenced by a quite a few factors. While the Princeton research advances our understanding of the areas of the brain that help form "declarative" or conscious memories, there are other kinds of memory that...
They'll try to trick you into answering questions. First they'll say, "It's not about drugs; it's about"--fill in the blank. It's about "judgment" or "honesty" or "security clearances." Forget it. It's always about the drugs. The other thing is not to be seduced by the claim that if you just answer this one question, it will all be over. The next time you get a drug question the only appropriate answer is, What part of no don't you understand...
...Kosovo Liberation Army, pressed his message against revenge attacks on Serbs and expressed confidence that the KLA would disarm by September 19. But it may take more than Holbrooke?s powers of persuasion to bring the KLA into line, since the rebel group knows that the last thing NATO wants is a confrontation. "The U.N. can?t succeed unless the peacekeeping force can ensure security, and that really depends on NATO," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "But if the whole Kosovo mission turns out to be a dramatic failure, it?s clear that Washington is going...