Word: vital
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Though the discovery answered vital questions in the case, authorities seemed no closer to determining exactly why or by whom the three were abducted. According to a reliable report, Sund and the girls were last seen Feb. 15, the day after they checked in to the Cedar Lodge, a hotel on Yosemite's western edge. Pelosso, the daughter of a friend Sund met in 1973, when she spent her high school senior year in Argentina, had joined the Sunds for a three-month vacation. The Sunds had shown her Disneyland and the Bay Area, and on Feb. 12, Sund flew...
...that John Adams, Ken Agee and Ron Redburn rented a little house on 24th Street and began an international dating service called A Foreign Affair, a.k.a. loveme.com They ran ads in Russian newspapers asking women to send photos and vital statistics, and several weeks later their website debuted with 300 Russian princesses. Today they are the Manny, Moe and Jack of love. They have profiles of 6,500 women from 49 countries, dozens of clients have married, and they've hired six more employees in Phoenix and 20 in Russia. "It just took off," says Adams, whose love connection...
...most remember Pauling from 50 years ago, when he proclaimed that no vital forces, only chemical bonds, underlie life. Without that message, Crick and I might never have succeeded...
...feminist Franklin, and the feeling was mutual. By Watson's account, this estrangement led Wilkins to show Watson one of Franklin's best pictures yet, which hadn't been published. "The instant I saw the picture my mouth fell open," Watson recalled. The sneak preview "gave several of the vital helical parameters...
...house mirror for a society warped by raging technological advance. Science fiction doesn't want or need to make much sense. It seeks astonishment, terror, wonder, ecstasy and dread. It is spectacular and mythic, an oxygen tent for society's daydreams. Science fiction cordially ignores many vital technologies, such as, say, garbage recycling. Recycling is hugely important, but it has zero science-fictional thrill...