Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...line seeds every year and must rely on saving a portion of each crop in order to plant their fields the following year. Monsanto insists that weak patent protection in many of these countries makes a technology like Terminator especially important. But that argument carries little weight in parts of the world where food bowls are going empty. "This technology brings no benefit to farmers," says Hope Shand, research director of RAFI...
Assembling the right group is a delicate business; as with any ritualized art form, from Kabuki to slasher films, one must follow rules but with a whiff of originality. Pearlman and his staff look at everything--the proportionate size of group members, their height, their weight, their hair color, their personalities onstage and off. Who will be the prankster, like 'N Sync's Chris Patrick? Who will be the lead sex symbol, like Backstreet's Nick Carter? Who can make a credible dangerous guy, the one who dresses more "urban" and maybe even has tattoos...
...incredibly smart." Writer Orlean, at any rate, is a superb tour guide through the loony subculture of Florida's orchid fanciers, and a writer whose sentences can glow like rare blooms, as when she reports that the air above an orchid swamp's sinkholes "has the slack, drapey weight of wet velvet...
Unfortunately, The Crimson Staff has once again devoted its daily editorial space to bashing the Undergraduate Council (Editorial, Jan. 13). The Staff praises council downsizing as a way to "cut dead-weight" from the council and ensure competitive and interesting elections...
...overweight nation shouldn't clebrate the wonder drug just yet. The study, which combined orlistat usage with a modified diet, showed only extremely modest weight loss. Participants who received the drug lost an average of only six and a half pounds more than those who took placebos; however, they did have better luck keeping the weight off. "It's not the magic bullet," says TIME health columnist Christine Gorman. "But literally every pound counts in terms of cholesterol and other health risks. Regaining only 35 percent of their lost weight is significant because regaining is so discouraging." And this drug...