Word: leape
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last solved a puzzle that had for years stymied scientists seeking to understand how traits are passed from one generation to the next. By finally discerning the double-helix structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the giant molecule of heredity, they had cleared the way for a great leap forward in human understanding of the processes of life...
...only remaining superpower, the U.S. can find itself the target of resentments of players on all sides who are seeking American involvement or trying to fend it off. Massive car bombs have become familiar as political weapons in the Middle East and Europe. But it would represent a quantum leap in terrorist capabilities -- and brazenness -- to assemble one in the U.S. Middle East terror networks, for one, have never shown themselves to be capable of that or interested in doing so, preferring to concentrate their attacks on Westerners in Europe, where they have found it easier to operate...
...College's Black enrollment surged in 1963, and another enormous leap occurred after the assassination of Martin Luther King...
Unless you are born with feathers, flying requires a leap of faith. Passengers have to assume, when they strap themselves in, that a 500,000-lb. machine hurtling through the air is firmly in the pilot's control. That faith was shaken last week by a report that a DC-10 coming into New York's Kennedy airport recently almost crashed when a passenger in first class turned on his portable compact disc player...
...users around the world have discovered -- is that cyberspace is also a new medium. Every night on Prodigy, CompuServe, GEnie and thousands of smaller computer bulletin boards, people by the hundreds of thousands are logging on to a great computer-mediated gabfest, an interactive debate that allows them to leap over barriers of time, place, sex and social status. Computer networks make it easy to reach out and touch strangers who share a particular obsession or concern. "We're replacing the old drugstore soda fountain and town square, where community used to happen in the physical world," says Howard Rheingold...