Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chatter," says Tina V. Katopodes '98. "If you sit near the front, you can hear them whispering...
Some might describe a trip to this store as a walk through a carnival fun-house. Some might find Jack's clutter and constant chatter more akin to a house of horrors. If cheap thrills at cheap prices are what you're looking for, then Jack's got some magic...
...mammals that the pheromonal chatter climaxes. Countless species--from wolves to musk ox--claim territory by urinating around their borders, an olfactory keep-off-the-grass sign if there ever was one. Male voles use urine as a potent aphrodisiac, excreting a chemical that causes females to ovulate within 48 hours. "Identify anything that's of biological significance to animals," says Rachel Herz of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, "and it's usually mediated by scent...
...sixth-grade humanities class at New York City's Mott Hall, the noise level has reached cacophony. It's mostly animated chatter among the students as they put final touches on oral reports they will deliver in a few minutes. But another sound adds to the din: the staccato clicking of keys on computers. In this hard-knocks Washington Heights school, where a substantial number of the students qualify for free lunches, a hardwired revolution is taking shape. All the students in the class work on their own Toshiba laptops, cutting-edge machines bought by the school district last year...
Slicing through the fearful chatter, the real question is this: Should we let what we are doing "next year" define...