Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know that there are times when climate is very delicately poised. We know that for the past 8,000 or 10,000 years, it hasn't flipped over. But we don't really understand it well enough to say whether it's really stable or whether we are on thin...
After a particularly difficult Christmas that year, Holland became discouraged. "I started thinking, 'What if my family doesn't want to be bothered with me?' " She didn't like the weight she was gaining without the drugs that kept her thin. But she managed to keep faith, and on Valentine's Day she and Corey were married. In April she gave birth to a drug-free daughter. In June she regained custody of her first three children. Her current situation is not all roses. "Sometimes I want to pull my hair out," she says. "Housing is really difficult...
Dissolved in a test tube, the essence of life is a clear liquid. To the naked eye it looks just like water. But when it is stirred, the "water" turns out - to be as sticky as molasses, clinging to a glass rod and forming long, hair- thin threads. "You get the feeling this is really different stuff," says Dr. Francis Collins in his molecular-biology laboratory at the National Institutes of Health. Collins heads a mammoth effort to catalog the library of biological data locked in those threads, a challenge he compares, not inaccurately, with splitting the atom or going...
...Canadians did not reoccupy the checkpoint, but the U.N. was determined to play down the ordeal. "This is a minor incident," said Major Idesbald van Biesebroeck, spokesman for the United Nations Protection Force in Sarajevo. Only in Bosnia, where 10,000 peacekeepers walk the thin line between being humanitarians and combatants, could such treatment of U.N. troops be considered a minor incident. "Repetition creates a sense of ordinariness," said Petrokilis. "Of course, what the Bosnian Serbs did here was inexcusable. But similar things happen all the time on all sides -- just pick your belligerent...
...panel of federal judges ruled that the Louisiana state legislature went too far when it tried to create a second black-majority congressional district after the 1990 census. In the judges' view the resulting district, which zigzags in a thin line for 600 miles along the state's northern and eastern borders, was the product of impermissible racial gerrymandering. Now the map must be redrawn before the state's 1994 elections...