Word: peeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...middle of the pond you can see a flock of ducks. Notice that these are of the diving variety as opposed to the dabbling type." Ten pairs of binoculars peek through the gaps of the chain link fence that encircles Fresh Pond...
...Want to peek into a crystal ball and glimpse at the future of cloning? One way might be to look at the livestock industry, the proving ground for reproductive technology. More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows. While copying particular strains of valuable plants such as corn and canola has become an indispensable tool of modern agriculture, cloning farm animals, feasible as it may be, has never become widespread. Even simple embryo splitting...
...though, VR entertainment is starting to bloom where movies did nearly a century ago: in the arcades. A penny in the slot once offered streetwise strollers a peek at Fatima's dance; now $4 to $30 gets you a sleigh ride on a space ship (in Cybergate) or a fretful stroll through a computerized Acropolis (in Dactyl Nightmare, by Virtuality). And why not the arcades? Video games are a $5.3 billion business in the U.S., about as large as the theatrical movie market...
...rockers have a touch of the devil in them. Some bare their demons flagrantly, others let their horns peek out from under a halo of good intentions. Matthew Sweet, who likes to mix bad-boy guitar licks with well- mannered melodies, belongs among the latter. As a lyricist, Sweet writes about girls and God with the same confessional zeal, seemingly torn between hardened skepticism and the promise of faith and romantic redemption. Yet despite his doubts -- or perhaps because he still cares enough to wonder -- Providence has smiled...
...light amid spooky music. Nearby is an adventure ride called Water Crash -- a drip-dry, 5-minute introduction to white-water rafting. The rapids are projected onto a screen as the raft bucks on a pool of water. Visitors can also sample from the menus of 15 restaurants and peek into the computerized control room that operates the retractable dome -- the largest in the world...