Word: eight
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Johnson, who at 6'5 towers above most other players on the court, showed she has the ability to score at will. She scored eight of her 18 points in the final 4:30 of the game to seal the victory for Harvard...
...EgyptAir Flight 990 is cruising uneventfully at 33,000 ft. on its normal heading from New York City northeast across the Atlantic toward Cairo. At that moment, two distinct clicks of a button on the control yoke disconnect the autopilot guiding the plane. Eight seconds later, the control yoke is pushed forward, tipping the tail up, pitching the nose down, and the aircraft tilts into a precipitous but controlled dive. Fourteen seconds later, the aircraft reaches 90% of the speed of sound and zero gravity--weightlessness--as it plummets through the night...
...television. According to a major study measuring the media consumption of 3,000 kids, ages two to 18, released last week by the Kaiser Family Foundation, the typical American kid spends about 5 1/2 hours a day "consuming" media (computers and music, but mainly TV) at home. For kids eight and older, the time jumps to almost seven hours...
...largest concern is where they are watching television. Two-thirds of all kids eight and older have a television in their bedroom, says the Kaiser report. And a third of kids ages two to seven have TVs in their room. That's way too many kids spending way too much time alone in their bedroom with only Kermit the Frog and the offspring of Aaron Spelling to keep them company. So the first thing parents should do is take the TV out of a kid's room. Like computers, televisions should be where parents can at least tell if they...
...amazing what an eight-inch blade will do for an empty gun, even sheathed, and what a little savagery will do for a soldier-in-training who's beginning to think he's going to maid academy...