Word: boundingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forecasters have a problem because stunning developments in science and technology are constantly overtaking their imagination, while the most logical predictions are bound to be pushed aside by the unexpected. We also know that the millennium is an entirely artificial mark on the calendar. But beneath our preoccupation with it is a deep psychological meaning: the need to believe that we are not lost in time, that we are going somewhere and that we can glimpse where. We will feel a little forlorn having to look back to the year 2000. But soon enough, the predictions will start reaching toward...
...laid eyes on the buff-colored, black-striped mammal, which weighs less than 1 oz. and measures barely 2 in. Named for a Colorado naturalist who discovered the subspecies 103 years ago, the mouse hibernates for nine months. In summer it emerges only at night, when it commences to bound 4 ft. at a leap through the tall grass, aided by preternaturally long hind legs and an outsize tail that helps stabilize it in flight. "There could be thousands out there, and there could be far fewer; we just don't know," concedes Fish and Wildlife biologist Peter Plage...
These reasons are clearly not convincing. This tradition-bound, proud New England institution should join its state and celebrate Patriot's Day, letting students watch their peers in the incredible feat of running a marathon or enjoy spring in Boston if only by sleeping...
Like many other experts, Adler discounts a once popular theory that the bloodstains are composed of microscopic particles of reddish pigment, bound in a tempera medium. While it is possible that there are traces of pigment on the shroud, says historian Wilson, they are most likely flakes from copies of the image that were pressed onto the shroud in an attempt to rub off some of its sanctity. Adler believes the image must have been triggered by some sort of radiation process. But he stays away from speculation as to whether such radiation could have been divine in origin...
...these are just growing pains for a park that is a living organism. Its cast of star characters is bound to expand and contract. "Animals will be born and, unfortunately, animals will die," Wolff says. "That's part of the natural process." Some local fauna have already squatted in these fabulous digs. And the park itself will grow. Next year the Asia section opens, with a flume thrill ride and a second safari. A still more remote realm, a kind of beastly kingdom, will feature creatures from fantasy. Eisner also hopes to devote an area to domesticated animals...