Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene: a couple is ordering dinner in a restaurant. The husband goes first. "Hmm, nice menu. I think I'll have the Chilean sea bass...
...comfort, Bernard is not alone, and neither is Sears. The final days of the Internet's first really big Christmas were punctuated by a mountain of undelivered packages and a blizzard of complaints: computers that crashed, orders that vanished, items suddenly out of stock or stuck in the warehouse. In a telling field test, the results of which were released with only five shopping days left, staff members at Andersen Consulting tried ordering 480 gifts at 100 of the most popular online stores and managed to get through only 3 times...
After a half-year of investigations, the federal government earlier this month ended up accusing Wen Ho Lee of negligently exposing American military secrets, but not of espionage. But it seems nobody told the prosecutors, who spent the first day of Lee's bail hearing Tuesday painting him as public enemy number Wen. First Lee's former boss, Richard Krajcek, testified that Lee admitted to failing an FBI polygraph on which he said he never spied for China. Krajcek went on to describe documents Lee is known to have placed on an insecure computer mainframe as the "crown jewels...
...They estimate fewer than 10 percent of all Y2K-related failures will occur during the first two weeks of January, with 55 percent of them spread throughout the whole coming year...
...What's different about the current research, which was performed by a team of Italian and British scientists, is that it offers what's believed to be the first proof that linguistics have an impact upon our brain physiology. Brain scans of the students showed that Italians have more active superior temporal regions, while Brits have more active left frontal and posterior inferior temporal regions. While researchers said the immediate importance of the study lies in the area of teaching language and reading, it's sure to play a role in future anthropological research seeking to explain the differences between...