Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shift was taking place in their country. "Everything is moving, the way water moves," said Ade Nasution, a businessman who turned up at the Parliament last week to support the students. "I don't think anything can stop it." Despite Habibie's accession, Suharto's departure leaves a political vacuum. Indonesians are left to wonder who or what is really going to fill...
...concession follows the company's pattern of giving up as little as possible as late as possible. But this apparent loosening gives only a narrow margin of leeway and actually invites scrutiny of other Redmond customs --and Gateway's too -- as other contractual restrictions close in to fill the vacuum: Gateway is making this option available only to subscribers to its Internet service, because so many other ISPs require their subscribers to use Microsoft's browser exclusively...
...earth supported a mere 2.5 billion people in 1950, but by the millennium there'll be 6 billion mouths to feed. These people will also need parking spaces, copies of Microsoft Windows and vacuum cleaners. Or maybe not. Virtually all of the 86 million new human beings per year -- 98 percent of them -- are being born to mothers in the developing world, where luxuries are rare. Central Africa leads the procreation race, followed by parts of Asia and Latin America...
These changes can't occur in a vacuum; public debate and scrutiny of the effects of technology are sorely missing in our rah-rah culture. It's not merely possible to question the Information Age without throwing the proverbial loom in the river--it's one of the civic responsibilities we bear in a sometimes brave, sometimes frightening, new world...
...their body," says University of Chicago urologist Dr. Gregory Bales. The good news is that the erections resulting from such injections can last an hour or more, even after orgasm, though depending on one's taste and circumstances, this too could be a downside. Other treatments, which involve vacuum pumps, penile implants and penis rings, are no less awkward or, to get to the heart of the matter, no more conducive to the spontaneous, unselfconscious, beautiful sex that Calvin Klein ads imply is our daily right...