Word: wente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over the madhouse wall to freedom. This too was real. The Perth surgeons had put my right leg, with its multiple fractures, in a fiendish-looking contraption called an Ilizarov frame: three concentric rings enclosed the leg, and from each of them sprouted an array of metal spikes that went through the flesh and screwed into the pieces of my tibia and fibula, holding them rigidly in position so they could reknit. I would be cursing this gadget for two months...
...next morning, neighborhoods around the plant looked like ghost towns. Train service in and out of the area was halted, and masked police officers in protective gear stopped motorists from entering. The country's leaders went on national TV to admit that they didn't know what was wrong or how to end whatever was going on inside the plant. More hours ticked by during which no one tried to stop the nuclear reaction. Finally, after almost 20 hours, the disaster was contained, and local residents were told several hours later that they could go outside. Those living closest...
...record-industry sages were trumpeting Nirvana and the flannel-clad hordes from Seattle as the next big thing, Arista Records president Clive Davis made a huge gamble: he invested millions in hip-hop, a genre many viewed as too troubled to be worth the risk. But the grunge bubble went bust, of course, as did a few of the labels betting on it. Today, hip-hop rolls along as comfortably as Puff Daddy does in his Bentley...
...vice president of a Los Angeles party-equipment-rental company, who underwent some 1,000 zaps in one session alone to get rid of the angry red veins on his face. "Halfway through, I was dizzy," he admits. But it took only three days to heal, and he went back for another day of 800 zaps...
...also important not to be too cynical. China is undergoing yet another awesome transformation, one marked by a pragmatic expansion of economic and individual freedom. We could sense both its promise and its limitations wherever we went: at a discussion with religious leaders in a mosque in Kashgar, at meetings with engineers and then environmental activists as we sailed the Yangtze and toured the mind-boggling Three Gorges Dam construction site, at a FORTUNE Global Forum of international CEOs in Shanghai's new convention center and at events surrounding the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Chinese revolution...