Word: clock
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward Italy at an altitude of 21,000 ft., crossed over the Mediterranean at night and enjoyed a meal of emu. On a satellite phone, Jones chatted with his wife, who spent most of her time at mission control at Geneva's Cointrin Airport, which was manned around the clock by a meteorologist and an air-traffic controller. Piccard's wife Michele preferred to stay at home with their three daughters...
...drink alcohol at night; it may allow you to fall asleep more easily but you're likely to suffer a rebound effect in a few hours. Getting up at the same time every morning is also important, because that makes it easier to synchronize your body's biological clock. Whatever you do, don't panic if you become sleepless once again. Most folks find they can't break the cycle of insomnia overnight...
...have taken place in the past 20 years) and are only one of many options available to would-be parents--from using frozen embryos and surrogate mothers to picking the number, sex and genes of their babies. These innovations have freed women from the tyranny of their biological clock, triggered an explosion of multiple births, even made the sex act irrelevant in conception--all the while setting the stage for still more unsettling spectacles to come, such as human cloning...
...Campaign" unhook their padded bras and rip off their nylons as they hit Bermuda in style. Besides the usual skinny dipping and boat racing, members of Company 151 can look forward to "Paul Newman Day," when everyone must individually guzzle an entire an entire case of beer before the clock strikes 12. On "Package Night," band members do the full monty with a sympathetically naked tech crew to tote. Happy drinking...
...they say, the tenure clock and the biological clock are running at the same time," said Elizabeth M. Doherty, committee member and assistant dean for academic planning...