Word: waterer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from abroad, hundreds of specialists from the U.S., Europe, Israel, Russia, even traditional enemy Greece. Yet hope dwindled for the estimated 35,000 people who may remain locked in the wreckage of Turkey's punishing earthquake. After the first three days, successful rescues grew more and more sporadic. Without water, in the cruel heat, few of the trapped can survive more than 72 hrs., no matter how strong the will to live. There might still be a miracle or two. But the hopelessness for the rest reverberated in the trembling voice of Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit as he acknowledged...
...species has become so well adapted to constant, relentless change that it has lost the ability to see just how weird much of the world has truly become. New things--a male sporting a nose ring, people talking into cell phones on busy street corners between swigs of bottled water--grab our attention and then quickly fade into the wallpaper of contemporary life. That is why the Rip van Winkle story and its many variants remain so appealing. We need, occasionally, someone who's been out of the loop for 20 years to point out everything we've long stopped...
...baloney. Bill can tee off at the country club (4), but buying cigars at the Havana Trading Co. (5) could be politically sensitive, and the town has--horrors!--no McDonald's. Chelsea can pop into Hairtique (6) or Yankee Clipper (7) for a new do, or she can water-ski on Skaneateles' finger lake (8)--supposedly the cleanest in the continental U.S. Alas, the town's short- and fat-man race is no more. But if the town gets too much, Syracuse--which has more voters--is just 19 miles away...
...Water, water, everywhere ?- it?s not just a theory anymore. Astronomers have cracked open a meteorite that dates back 4.5 billion years ?- to the birth of the solar system ?- and found tiny droplets of seawater, still in liquid form and capable of answering one of astronomy?s big questions: Was Earth born with water, or was water thrust upon it? Some scientists say water was created on Earth by happy circumstance, but others insist that it was delivered on comets and meteorites ?- and therefore might have nurtured life elsewhere. "It?s no real surprise that there would be water left...
...problem. Until then, NASA asteroid specialist Michael Zolensky and his colleagues will have little to do except wait ?- and collect more evidence. After getting the word out to be extra careful with new meteorite finds (previous discoveries have been tainted by suspicions that they had become contaminated by water from Earth's environment), Zolensky has had another hit on a rock that touched down in Morocco. "Lo and behold, it's the same stuff in a different meteorite," he said. Everywhere indeed...