Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fossil record. But with the find in Namibia, as Grotzinger and three colleagues reported in the Oct. 27 issue of Science, the gap suddenly filled with complex life. In layer after layer of late Precambrian rock, heaved up in the rugged outcroppings the Namibians call kopfs (after the German word for "head"), Grotzinger's team has documented the existence of a flourishing biological community on the cusp of a startling transformation, a community in which small wormlike somethings, small shelly somethings - perhaps even large frondlike somethings - were in the process of crossing over a shadow line into uninhabited ecospace...
...categories in an intercollegiate swimming competition. The one-meter dive, three-meter dive, and the 10-meter dive are each evaluated by judges for artistic merit and degree of difficulty. After the highest and lowest marks are thrown out (no need to worry about that nasty East German judge), a composite score is calculated for each diver based on the above criteria and the competitor with the highest total wins the event, thereby earning points for his or her team...
...George Joulwan, to begin the operation. Within days you will begin to see American troops moving from Germany by rail and roads through Hungary into Bosnia." Van Voorst reports that the Hungarian parliament yesterday approved the use of its bases for transportation centers for the operation and today the German parliament debates the question of contributing up to 4,000 troops to the operation. "This would be the biggest deployment of German troops outside Germany since World War II," says Van Voorst. "There is a sizable opposition, but the government is firmly in favor of sending the troops...
...Syncronys may be more than just another high-tech success story. According to a report published last week in the German computer magazine c't--a report vehemently denied by the company--Syncronys' promise of memory compression may have been just that, a promise. The magazine's analysis of the program's code suggests that the reason SoftRAM 95's technology does not work as advertised is that its technology does not exist...
...many as 2,000 American soldiers to Bosnia this week: "It's part of an enabling force that will set up shop near Tuzla, where the headquarters element of the U.S. sector will be." The military plan calls for an additional 18,000 American troops, mostly from the German-based 1st Armored Division, to supplement a NATO peacekeeping force...