Word: writer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kinkade prints, view such techniques as an acceptable means to an end. "You can't blame someone for earning a living with their talent," says Bob Adorni. Or can you? "People say I've sold out," says Kinkade. "But not reproducing my art would be like telling a writer not to publish a manuscript because it's one of a kind...
...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 over from the formation of the solar system, but now scientists have it in front of them," says TIME senior science writer Michael Lemonick. "All water isn?t the same, and the similarities or differences between this water and the Earth?s water could tell scientists...
...that the network isn?t even replacing her. The hot, young and female programming exec who at 32 landed the top entertainment spot at ABC on the strength of birthing "Friends" at NBC was "reorganized out of a job before she even left her job," says TIME television writer James Poniewozik. "In Disney?s ongoing quest to take advantage of the vertical integration potential of getting Disney-produced shows on the network it owned, a development person just didn?t figure in." Yet Tarses, dogged by criticism and rumors of her impending doom almost from the moment her tenure began...
...Godforsaken Sea, Derek Lundy, a gifted Canadian writer and amateur sailor, tells the story of the 1996-97 Vendee Globe. It gives readers the adrenaline rush of what Lundy calls "apocalyptic sailing." The sailors' skill is astonishing. "These are guys," an observer tells Lundy, "who can go downwind in 30 knots of wind, surfing on 20-ft. seas, carrying a spinnaker and full mainsail. And in those conditions they'll jibe the boat, with the spinnaker--at night, in the dark, alone!" Getting home alive was victory enough in the 1996-'97 race. Sixteen boats started from Biscay; nine finished...
...This is another in a series of reminders that antibiotics are losing their effectiveness," says TIME science writer Christine Gorman. Years of overuse have sapped the potency of what has been considered the greatest health care breakthrough of the 20th century. According to the Centers for Disease Control, by 1997 half of all hospital-acquired staph infections were resistant to the most common types of antibiotics. So what can doctors do? For starters, they can stop prescribing so many antibiotics - it only accelerates the development of supergerms. Already, hospitals are trying to hold back on the use of vancomycin...