Word: washings
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DIED. BILL BISSELL, 70, longtime band director for the University of Washington who in the early '80s invented, with an associate, the wave--the cheer in which fans stand and raise their arms section by section, causing improbable delight among football fans everywhere; in Bothell, Wash...
...most popular song in history ("White Christmas") and the longest-lived pop anthem ("God Bless America"). A one-man synthesis of American assimilation, he helped define American pop with three other gents from all over the map: New York Jew Al Jolson, Omaha German-American Fred Astaire and Tacoma, Wash., Catholic Bing Crosby...
...bioinformatics isn't just about genes and proteins anymore. "It's now used to describe how to manage and integrate all information from the drug-discovery process through clinical trials," says Pradip Banerjee, an analyst at consultancy Accenture. That's why drug giant Merck bought Kirkland, Wash.-based Rosetta Inpharmatics, a leader in the field, for $620 million last May. The much touted convergence of biotechnology and computing, it seems, has revolutionized a host of other fields...
...Already a folk hero, Reyes became a legend at the 1999 World Championships in Cardiff, Wales. As is his custom, he showered before the tournament and not again until it was over?"so the luck won't wash off," he says?then beat players from England, Germany, Japan, fellow Filipino Francisco ("Django") Bustamante and, in the finals, Taiwan's Hao Ping-chang. Filipinos knew he was good, even great. But now he was world champion, and he was theirs...
...couldn't do Simpson during that whole road-rage drama. I was so sick of him. I think of Gary Condit now--I just wanna go wash my hands. All of us in the '90s seemed to take a bunch of silly pills...