Word: mooning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that old moon river again. Not content with finding ice on our very own Luna, scientists unveiled evidence in the journal Nature Thursday of entire underground oceans on no less than two of Jupiter's moons. Europa and Callisto were long suspected to bear icy crusts, but at a decidely chilly 483 million miles from the Sun, nobody expected these rocks to be anywhere near tropical enough for the liquid stuff. "If we find out four and a half billion years after the formation of the solar system that there's still enough heat that ice will melt...
Every so often, before Election Day or a moon landing or the crowning of someone as the new King, we know in advance when history will be made, and so we set the table, bring out the good silver, choose our words a bit more carefully, because the moment is one for the record. It was in honor of that prospect that the tourists lined up in the rain outside the Capitol last Thursday morning, to win a place in the gallery where they could watch the House take up the issue that it has entertained only twice before...
...curve explains why so many grayhairs who should be regaling bowling buddies with stories about the good old days are still putting on helmets. The league will have three quarterbacks in their 40s as of next week, when Tennessee backup Dave Krieg enters middle age. Seattle Seahawks starter Warren Moon is 41, and Atlanta Falcons backup Steve DeBerg, at 44, is the age of Manning and Leaf combined. Oakland Raider backup Wade Wilson is 39; Denver Bronco John Elway, 38; and Minnesota's Randall Cunningham, 35, came out of retirement two years ago and threw for 442 yards and four...
...stature and nurturing generosity have long attracted talented young musicians, but this exceptional group really cooks with revitalized standards (Just Friends gets a swinging, brassy treatment spiced with a fugue) and exciting new compositions, including the tuneful, scintillatingly played Waltz for Nicole and a lovely ballad, Milk of the Moon, that displays Ferguson's romantic side...
Starfire soccer is a welcome change from the usual testosterone-charged kicking, punching, punting video sports games. Not surprisingly, it's from Purple Moon, purveyor of CD-ROMS designed for 8-to-12-year-old girls. Starfire players spend a lot of time grappling with such emotionally charged issues as how to deal with ball hogs and feuding friends. Players eventually get to practice heading and dribbling. The one thing they don't do is play much soccer...