Word: flips
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heartening news offered by recent crime statistics, there is an ominous flip side. While the crime rate is dropping for adults, it is soaring for teens. Between 1990 and 1994, the rate at which adults age 25 and older committed homicides declined 22%; yet the rate jumped 16% for youths between 14 and 17, the age group that in the early '90s supplanted 18- to 24-year-olds as the most crime-prone. And that is precisely the age group that will be booming in the next decade. There are currently 39 million children under 10 in the U.S., more...
...HEARTWARMING BOOK coming out about children. She recently described herself as a "Christmas fanatic'' and celebrated the holiday by wearing red earrings in the shape of ribbons. Even her shoulder-length flip has a more traditional look...
...from the top of the new year's pop-trash pile constitute a trend. Last year's trend was hard-boiled women detectives, by such hard-boiled women writers as Carol O'Connell (Mallory's Oracle) and Patricia Cornwell (The Body Farm). The new trend is, let's see (flip, flip), hard-boiled women, right, but (flip, flip) written by soft-to-medium-boiled...
...think that coin tossing isn't random, it's physics," he says. "You can show that a very slight change in how you flip it makes for the difference between heads and tails...
Even more speculative are scientists' attempts to address the flip side of the Cambrian mystery: why this evolutionary burst, so stunning in speed and scope, has never been equaled. With just one possible exception - the Bryozoa, whose first traces turn up shortly after the Cambrian - there is no record of new phyla emerging later on, not even in the wake of the mass extinction that occurred 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian period...