Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last Wednesday a painter spotted a struggle while working on a neatly kept house in Tampa's working-class Orient Park suburb. Inside, a naked man appeared to be throttling a naked woman. The witness called 911, and when a police officer arrived at the door, he was met by an apparition. Lawrence Singleton, says a neighbor, "came out of the house staggering. His shirt was unbuttoned, and he had blood all over his chest." Apparently drunk, he announced that he had cut himself chopping vegetables. But when he moved casually to answer a ringing phone...
...precise nature of the disruption gradually came to light. The mutation seemingly altered the genetic "sign posts" which allow the cells to orient themselves and travel to the correct places...
Other findings can now be put into the context of this discovery, painting a picture of how neurons orient themselves according to molecular signposts--using the molecules as signals to either turn or stop...
...father, C.Y. Tung, flamboyant founder of the Orient Overseas shipping empire, cultivated close relations with Chiang Kai-shek after Chiang's Nationalists fled the mainland for Taiwan. C.Y.'s Hong Kong-registered fleet became a valuable icon of "free China's" economic dynamism. By the time C.Y. died in 1982, however, the company was on the verge of collapse, with 24 tankers on order at a time when a global oversupply of vessels had sent shipping rates plummeting. It fell to C.H., the eldest son, to announce in August 1985 that the company could not repay $2.68 billion in debt...
...then ignoring customer pleas for help in 1994. Another whiff drifts by as Grove recounts Intel's stumbling exit from the memory business just in time to avoid becoming lunchtime sushi for chip-dumping Japanese megaliths. And the scent grows stronger as he chronicles his decision not to orient his company to the Internet. The aroma will be sweetly familiar to patrons of casinos, racetracks and presidential elections. It's the smell of luck...