Word: snapping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Huddled in a plexiglas incubator, 3 1/2-lb. Andreah Moran is, at nine days, so fragile that she looks as if her twig-thin arms and legs would snap from one false move. But gingerly navigating the tangle of blue electrodes attached to the infant's chest, John Dieter, a researcher at the University of Miami's Touch Research Institute, firmly massages those arms and legs and rubs Andreah's back and her tiny head. The baby sighs, parts her withered lips and begins a slow drool...
...revolvers that can be easily hidden under a shirt. The companies then advertise to criminals with felon-friendly claims, the suit charges, like the boast that the TEC-DC9 assault weapon offers "excellent resistance to fingerprints." And the weapons are distributed to gun shops that wink as straw buyers snap them up and whisk them off to be sold out of car trunks in high-crime neighborhoods...
Holbrooke sits down on a rug and Haxhiu plops next to him so that photographers can snap the first photo of a high-ranking U.S. official with a K.L.A. fighter. Holbrooke is furious that Haxhiu sits through the meeting with his assault rifle propped between his legs. Sipping Turkish coffee, Shehu reports that Serb attacks have reduced the population from 12,000 to 2,000, and the village remains under Serb mortar fire. He brushes aside Holbrooke's plea for a cease-fire and says the guerrillas will fight until Kosovo wins independence, or until death. "It reminds...
...miracle drugs. No wonder cures. No promises of panacea. The AIDS breakthrough announced Thursday in the journal Nature is a far more critical step: The decoding, if you will, of HIV's encryption key. For the first time, scientists have been able to snap X-ray pictures of what exactly happens when the virus that causes AIDS latches on to our immune cells -- and it's proving itself to be a more pernicious predator than anyone imagined. Dozens of spikes of protein stick out of its side, swathed in sugar so our antibodies won't be able to tell...
...really counterintuitive, especially how a few seconds are shot at a time and actors have to snap in and out of acting mode...It's very different from stage acting. There's no continuity whatsoever," Avni says...