Word: periodicity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Proving the age-old adage that good defense beats good offense, Cowan stepped up her game another notch in overtime, turning aside seven shots in the extra period...
After a close call against newcomer Wisconsin Friday night, Harvard regrouped and came out strong against Minnesota. The Crimson scored four goals in the opening period and held a 6-0 lead halfway through the second...
Shewchuk recorded her second goal at 13:29 of the first and Botterill added another score late in the period before the Crimson headed into the first intermission comfortably in front...
Researchers have made headway toward molecule-size transistors and wires and even batteries thousands of times as small as the period at the end of this sentence. These laboratory feats make talk of sugar cube-size computers less speculative than it was a few years ago. Says Lifset: "A lot of the consumer goods and industrial equipment could become dramatically smaller when nanotechnology comes online. That, plus more efficient recovery of the discarded goods, ought to translate into huge reductions in waste...
...lower end of this predicted warming range, the temperature rise would take us back to the conditions that existed between A.D. 950 and 1350, when the climate was 1[degree]C (2[degrees]F) warmer than it is now. This time period is regarded as one of the most benign weather regimes in history. To find temperature swings at the upper end, you have to go back 10,000 years, to when the earth was exiting the last Ice Age. Temperatures during the Ice Age were 5[degrees]C (10[degrees]F) cooler than they are now, and there...