Word: legging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FRENCH PRESIDENT FRANCOIS MITTERrand had been in office just six months when his doctor gave him the grim news: the leg and back pains he had been experiencing were due to a previously undiagnosed cancer of the prostate that had spread to his bones. The prognosis was not good. Half the men in Mitterrand's condition die within three years. Only 1 in 10 survives a decade or more...
...SMALL STEP One of evolution's enduring mysteries--the date when our ancestors first walked upright--may be close to being solved. Researchers working in Kenya found an ancient leg bone and other fossils, suggesting that bipedalism emerged at least 4 million years ago, 500,000 years earlier than any other fossils have indicated...
...Declaration of Candidacy form, which is kept on the shelf right next to the application forms for Notary Public. The registrants include not only Phil Gramm and Bob Dole but also the Rev. Billy Joe Clegg from Biloxi, Mississippi, whose slogan is "Clegg Won't Pull Your Leg" and who swears that Jesus is his campaign manager. There's also the poet and former seaman Michael Levinson from Buffalo, New York, who proposes a jobs program to build 10,000 clipper ships, and Caroline Killeen of Flagstaff, Arizona, the self-described "Hemp Lady" and ex-nun who advocates legalizing marijuana...
...final event of the evening, the 200m freestyle relay, junior diver Kara Miller, who took first place in the one-meter event and second in the three-meter made her swimming debut, racing in the final leg of the relay. The team of Miller, Deveney, Koerckel and sophomore Stephanie Lawrence took second in the event...
...rather than a challenger, to CNN. "It will be very difficult for ABC to put a dent in CNN's penetration because CNN has been around for so long," says senior media writer Richard Zoglin. "The fact that they have more than 200 affiliate stations will give them a leg up with local coverage, but the head start that Turner has may be insurmountable." ABC will seek to distribute the all-news programming using both cable and direct satellite, as well as new delivery systems developed by telephone companies. Last week, Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, complaining that...