Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of youths arrested for all types of murder jumped 9%, to 1,396, between 1985 and 1986. While many of these youths have criminal records and drug habits that may influence their behavior, Mones estimates that less than 10% of parricide defendants have any previous record. "In the parricide cases, the kids are rarely high," he says. And the vast majority of parricides are premeditated. The typical modus operandi: several shots to the back of the head of a sleeping parent...
...hard-won agreement, worked out over 16 months of arduous negotiations and an intense last-minute push to meet an Oct. 4 deadline imposed by Washington, aims at creating nothing less than the world's largest open market. If the tentative accord wins the approval of the U.S. Congress and the Canadian Parliament, all tariffs and many other restrictions that impede the flow of goods and services between the countries will vanish by 1999. President Reagan called the agreement an "important model for other nations seeking to improve their trading relationships." To Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, it was simply...
...with their model was that it ignored such key factors as winds, oceans and seasons. When NCAR's Stephen Schneider and Starley Thompson ran the numbers through their agency's three-dimensional computer model, they found that the winter would be more like a "nuclear autumn." Schneider says the less dramatic conclusion does not change the fact that "nuclear autumn is not going to be a nice picnic out there on the rocks watching the leaves change color." Despite the limitations and omissions of climate models, he argues, scientists cannot afford to ignore their predictions. They are, he concedes...
...play games. Women live them. Buy that? Then catch this, from David Mamet. When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he cares less about how you conducted yourself than whether you won or lost. The Guy's into irony. And cruel surprise endings. What's the point of running the only game in town if you can't have your little jokes...
...millenniums, the process of ozone production and destruction has been more or less in equilibrium. Then in 1928 a group of chemists at General Motors invented a nontoxic, inert gas (meaning that it does not easily react with other substances) that was first used as a coolant in refrigerators. By the 1960s, manufacturers were using similar compounds, generically called chlorofluorocarbons, as propellants in aerosol sprays. As industrial chemicals, they were ideal. "The propellants had to be inert," says Chemist Ralph Cicerone, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. "You didn't want the spray in a can labeled 'blue paint...