Word: floated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...swarm. Once she's inside, the sound of her wings, beating 250 to 500 times a second, becomes the mosquito equivalent of a flirty hair flip. The males frantically elbow each other to get at her, and within seconds one of them scores. The pair, copulating in midair, float down in crazy circles, coming briefly to rest in a tangle of legs and antennae. Who cares if that hum might later cost them their lives? It was worth...
...class I seemed to float from one lecture toanother, toughing out the papers and the labs.Still, the wisdom and enthusiasm of the professorswas astounding. I took E.O. Wilson's course onevolutionary biology. "you know," he said during alecture on reproduction, "each ejaculationproduces a hundred million or so sperm. you arethe product of a sperm that beat out millions ofothers--kind of like a genetic megabuck winner...
...float around for a relaxing ride onBoston's famous Swan Boats which inhabit thelandscaped ponds of the public Garden next to theCommon...
...WEST, RUSSIA DECIDED TO MAKE its ruble convertible to foreign currencies for the first time in nearly seven decades. The goal is to free the price of the ruble to float, possibly as early as Aug. 1, though most experts say the process could take longer. Moscow is counting on the measure to attract foreign investors who will then be able to calculate real prices and costs. They will also be able to take profits -- if they make any -- out of the country...
...them will suit up and go outside to try out construction techniques that will be used on the U.S. space station, Freedom, scheduled to be built by the late 1990s. They will also test the "astrorope," a device astronauts could use to save themselves if they start to float off into space...