Word: checking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also having trouble, the first thing you should do is check out the resolutions that celebrities have made. You can either use them as inspirational springboards or simply appropriate them verbatim as your own. Surprisingly, celebrities are the consummate resolution makers. Asked a simple yes or no question (e.g., Will you be watching this year's Super Bowl on television?) your typical actor/singer/model will prattle on interminably about the Bhagavad-Gita, string theory and film restoration. But ask a celeb for a New Year's resolution and out comes a pithy, succinctly worded and cogent personal mission statement...
...ANSWERS Check your mastery of this century and see if you're ready for the next...
...enough of the night itself. The big question: What if those predictions were right, and Saddam takes advantage of the post-Y2Khaos to lob a few bio-bombs our way? For a preview of life after a biological apocalypse, check out The Omega Man, Chuck Heston vs. a lot of zombies in a ruined LA, and ponder your options. Or better yet, find the Simpsons parody, The Homega Man, with Homer in the Heston role, and giggle your troubles away...
...sick of speaking Spanish, so he'll ride to Cienfuegos with us. He's studying Spanish there, the first year of seven he'll spend in Cuba on his way to a medical degree. We follow the taxi into Cienfuegos, drop off Dale at his barbed wire-surrounded dormitory, check into a hotel with red light bulbs and a lounge singer plowing through the high points of the Billy Joel songbook, and we're done for the night...
...MEMORY CHECK The Alzheimer's Association is urging families to take advantage of holiday reunions to assess elderly relatives for that most delicate of problems: memory loss. An association poll reveals, however, that 1 in 2 persons incorrectly believes normal forgetfulness could be Alzheimer's. To provide some better guidance, the group is offering a booklet of warning signs to those who call 800-272-3900. Among the disease's indicators: preparing a meal and forgetting to serve it; putting things in wrong places, such as a watch in a sugar bowl...