Word: warping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...subtle warp in an otherwise routine day. Dr. Wilina Lim, chief virologist with the Hong Kong Department of Health, was sorting through the usual load of blood and tissue specimens sent to her laboratory from nearby hospitals, typically about 80 a day. On this particular day--Tuesday, May 20, 1997--one specimen came from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kowloon, at the far side of Victoria Harbor, where a three-year-old boy had been admitted with what turned out to be a fatal respiratory illness. Her lab quickly determined that the infectious agent was some type of Influenza...
...being out here qualifies, if you ask Los Angeles police captain Ron Bergmann, who says more kids than ever are racing. The night of that November crash, he says, police were headed north on San Fernando Road when they saw racers, four abreast, bearing down on them at about warp 6. A 19-year-old Pasadena boy in an '89 Mustang convertible spun around and fled, but his car found a tree...
...Finally, they shrink to dim, glowing embers. A quiet ending--or so everyone thought before the Hubble Space Telescope came along. New images released last week show that the process is more complex and violent than anyone believed. Supersonic jets of particles and dense clots of dust warp the glowing gas into a variety of fantastic shapes that even scientists can't resist nicknaming. It'll happen to the sun too--but luckily, not for another 5 billion years, give or take a billion...
...fair: all movies warp reality. It's only logical to expect a more faithful adherence to fact from the evening news than from Hollywood, as Gavras is quick to point out. "This is not a documentary," he says. "It's a show. When people go to the movies, they make a choice to see a show. When they turn on the news, they expect to see the truth." But when people go to the movies, they also hope to enjoy textured, multi-dimensional stories that capture the complexities and ambiguities of human life, elements Mad City chooses to forsake...
...never happen," says trooper Mitch Tuttle as he cruises Interstate 15 in search of speeders. His radar locks onto an Olds coming the other way at 102 m.p.h. Tuttle crosses the median, turns south and shifts into warp. He's at 100, 110, 120, 130, 135. Now he's got him. Mike McCready, a 21-year-old Canadian student on his way to a reunion of Mormon missionaries, steps...