Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims that the ballistic rocket fired five days ago was not a test -- but the launching of Pyongyang's very own Sputnik. "Our scientists and technicians have succeeded in launching the first artificial satellite aboard a multi-stage rocket," KCNA said Friday. Not only that, but this little orbital wonder is apparently transmitting "the song of General Marshal Kim Jong Il" across the globe at this very moment...
...saying goes, you don't get something for nothing -- especially not where sex is concerned. Just as the terrors of HIV followed the joys of the sexual revolution, so it seems that Pfizer's anti-impotence wonder drug, Viagra, carries with it more health risks than anyone suspected. According to research published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, side effects can include fatal lung complications (for you) and bladder infections (for your partner -- a more poignant trade...
...nasty infections. There is also the risk of contracting hepatitis or HIV from an unsterilized needle, as there is with any piercing or tattooing. And dentists are starting to see a lot of problems they never expected: broken teeth, blood clots, patients choking on loose jewelry. It's a wonder no one has died...
...praise for Ken Starr and his wooing and winning of Monica Lewinsky? Is it not possible that this whole thing was a setup from Day One by a very clever female? Lewinsky's moves are impeccable. I wonder if she's available to coach the Chicago Bears. CAROL O'HERN Palatine...
Hytner, the first of this generation of Brit boy-wonder directors, says he wouldn't have done Carousel or Twelfth Night without Crowley. "Bob's aesthetic is mine as well: that a theater world should be poetic, a world of the imagination; that it should be hospitable to actors; that it should be bold in the use of colors." That would account for the glorious pools, and the pathways that slide together at the end to bring the lovers together. As Hytner says, "We are also both totally shameless about feeling that now and then you have to give...