Word: canyonize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bodies down by their feet and hands. The skull of one of them burst as it hit the rock, and his brain splattered my shirt. I was lying on my back and could see what they were doing up there. I watched them sling the bodies into the canyon; it all took about an hour...
...result of a single stroke of inspiration from one editor; the idea grew over a year from more modest proposals by several staff members. And then, over the past six months, it was prepared under the direction of editors Edward Jamieson and Stephen Koepp. Vacationing in the Grand Canyon's timeless beauty soon after he began the project, Koepp felt inspired to think about the millennium. "We decided to do this issue now because the '90s are really the advent season of the new millennium. In the relative scale of things, it's just a few minutes before midnight...
Furthest along of the new adhesion drugs is an "artificial matrix" designed to promote wound healing. Normally, a wound site looks like the Grand Canyon to arriving rescue cells. But this biodegradable gel, produced by Telios Pharmaceuticals, is peppered with synthesized CAM molecules so that cells arriving at a wound site will have plenty of places to get a grip. With the new gel filling in the gap, repairing wounds, including severe burns or skin ulcers, takes 30% less time and leaves less of a scar, claims company scientific director Michael Pierschbacher...
...prints -- they will be invited to have their pictures scanned by a computer and stored on a "Photo CD" -- a compact disc that looks just like one that might play the latest Guns N' Roses release but in fact stores all the shots of the kids and the Grand Canyon in digital form. These newfangled photo albums hold up to 100 images, stored for a fee of about $1 a frame. They can be viewed, without risk of fading or fraying, on an ordinary television set using a special CD player...
...MURDERED COURIER, HIS BODY DIScovered on the rim of a New Mexico canyon; an attache case stuffed with the usual large sum of money; any number of strange disappearances: WHITE SANDS bedazzles mainly by the speed and dexterity with which it shuffles and deals its assorted plot elements. Eventually, corrupt FBI men, a guy who claims to be CIA (Mickey Rourke in a role small enough so he doesn't wear out his welcome), some crooked arms dealers and a sexy mystery woman (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) all cherchez le loot. Director Roger Donaldson puts a curiously cheerful spin on paranoia...