Word: proof
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is proof that diversity can work. The new immigrants don't bother me at all," says Robbie Hahn, a 39-year-old lifelong resident of Riverside. "I know the names of almost everyone in this neighborhood...
...Wilson] really put proof behind the idea ofsocial dominance, partly in his canopy work, toconstruct the story of power through sociality...
...Mexico think that the little-understood neutrinos, the most common form of matter in the universe, have mass after all and may make up a significant portion of that dark matter. If this finding is confirmed, saysTIME science writer J. Madeleine Nash, "it would be pretty stunning." Such proof would help scientists understand whether the universe will go on expanding indefinitely, will remain in a stable state, or begin to contract...
Progress has been made in designing earthquake-resistant--but not earthquake-proof--buildings. U.S. building codes are written to save lives, not prevent all damage. Modern structures are designed to sway and maybe even crack in a quake, but not to break apart and crush their inhabitants under falling debris. Says Bill Iwan, director of the earthquake engineering research laboratory at Caltech: ``With buildings, if you walk out after a quake, the designers did their...
...break the diplomatic logjam over the missing service members. The U.S. Defense Department had assumed all along that Hanoi was keeping detailed records on captured U.S. soldiers, though Vietnamese officials insisted that most of the archives had been destroyed by termites. The Red Book information Schweitzer sneaked out provided proof that Hanoi had been lying. ``He opened the door for us,'' Colonel Joseph Schlatter of the Pentagon's office for prisoners of war told Time. ``He gave us the material to go to the Vietnamese and lay out the facts they had been denying for some time...