Word: moons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asian problems might not have even registered with American investors if not for the fact that stock prices in the U.S. are so high that they have become hypersensitive to any and all adverse news. "It doesn't take much to derail a market that has gone to the moon," says Stephen Roach, chief global economist for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter...
...late Qing Dynasty (that is, from 221 B.C. to 1911), the 27 appearances of Halley's Comet were all recorded in China. Zhang Heng, of the Han Dynasty, invented a seismograph to determine the location of earthquakes, and the celestial globe that showed the movement of the sun, moon and other stars. Mathematicians in the pre-Qin days put forward the proposition known as the Pythagorean theorem in the West today. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the 4th century A.D., China's mathematician Zu Chongzhi calculated the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter...
Jeffrey Kluger is the co-author with Jim Lovell of Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, on which the movie was based For more of Foale's harrowing experiences aboard Mir, visit time.com...
...became a religion about Christ instead of the religion of Christ, in Eastern countries Buddha was elevated to godlike status in the center of an elaborate, ritualized theology. Since we Americans are not programmed to accept the cultural, traditional trappings of Eastern Buddhism, we can more clearly see the moon instead of focusing on the finger pointing toward it. Perhaps the truest Buddhism of all will finally surface here in the U.S. LARRY WALLINGFORD Chicago...
...self-taught members said that they can now perform a variety of tricks, including many of the classics--sleeping yo-yo, walk the dog, over the top, around the world and shoot the moon...