Word: vaporizer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980 votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat. Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to win the general election this fall...
...consequences. Gran Catchprice's desire to destroy what she and her late husband have built seems understandable, given her original expectations: "The only thing she had ever wanted was a flower farm, but what she got instead was the smell of rubber radiator hoses, fan belts, oil, grease, petrol vapor, cash flows, overdrafts and customers whose bills ran 90, 120 days past due. It was this she could not stand -- she did it to herself...
...first known encounter with a buckyball was recorded in 1985 by Richard Smalley, a chemical physicist at Rice University, and Harold Kroto, a British chemist from the University of Sussex who was visiting Smalley's lab. The two scientists were studying what would happen if they heated carbon vapor to about 8,000 degreesC (14,500 degrees F). Unexpectedly, they detected a mysterious new form of carbon. Chemical tests proved two things: 1) the molecules had 60 carbon atoms, and 2) they had no "edges," as chemists call the unpaired electrons that cause atoms to form chemical bonds with...
...Dyck loved the stuff of the world -- the shimmer and exact texture of fabrics (he was, after all, the son of a silk merchant in Antwerp), the brightness of flesh or the passing melancholy that settles on a face, the layering of vapor and light in the sky, the sheen of armor. In this sense of lavishness he was, of course, very much Titian's heir, and it is wonderful to see how much pictorial interest he could discover in inert substances -- particularly the brocades and velvets worn by his sitters -- in the course of translating them into patches...
...Chilean's latest venture has alarmed his country's neighbors. He admits that he is experimenting with fuel-air explosive bombs, which release and then detonate a vapor cloud of fuel. The F.A.E. has been called the "poor man's atom bomb" because of the powerful explosion it generates. After it became known that Cardoen had helped arrange an F.A.E. test in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile three months ago, protesters in Bolivia, Peru and Argentina charged that Chile's production of such a terrifying weapon could set off a regional arms race...