Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...extra effort to ensure that Windows 95 goes to press with a minimum of bugs. Windows 95 contains a slew of new features-features that could easily translate into new headaches for users; Microsoft wants to avoid problems as much as possible by testing the product on willing guinea pigs...
...slightly stooped, in fact, but strong enough to give 30 talks during a 33,000-km tour that touched the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka. The Pontiff has still not fully recovered from last April's surgery for a broken leg: he walks with a cane and his left arm shakes almost constantly. But his actor's sense of timing and improvisation remain intact, and on several occasions he spoke without notes--a sign he was in good spirits. At one point in Manila, after a lengthy departure from his prepared speech, the Pope announced slowly, with...
...Manila, where an estimated 3 million to 4 million people attended Mass in Luneta Park. The scene was so chaotic that the Pope had to change plans and arrived by helicopter, an hour and a half late. A smaller but more colorful turnout welcomed him in Papua New Guinea, where he presided over the beatification--a prelude to sainthood--of lay catechist Peter To Rot, who was killed by occupying Japanese troops during World War II. Bare-chested greeters wearing grass skirts and tall headdresses danced and sang for the Pope on his arrival...
...pope's second stop, after a weekend of rest, comes Monday in Papua New Guinea, where a million Cathlics -- a fourth of the population -- wait to greet him with tribal drums, painted warriors and barefoot dancers...
...team in a combat situation. Individual soldiers would not feel they could always depend on their homosexual counterparts in dangerous situations. These soldiers would be less willing to take the risks necessary to succeed in combat. As a result, American soldiers could die needlessly, helpless guinea pigs in a social experiment gone wrong...