Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contest was a scoreless pitcher's dueluntil Cornell broke through for one run in the topof the sixth. Junior Jaime Reed led off with atriple to right and scored on a sacrifice fly byfreshman Annette Sheppard...
...afraid of the Judgment Day?" Sister Mira Anne Nattoli, clad in traditional Muslim robes, asks her fifth- and sixth-grade English class. Today's text is "The Twins and the Missing Math Paper," but the lesson is as much religion as English. "Whoever cheats," a young man reads carefully, "is not a good student of Islam." The students, about 95% African American, wear loose-fitting shirts and headdresses--skullcaps called kufis for the boys and scarves called khimars for the girls. Cleveland's Islamic School of Oasis is in many ways a typical Muslim day school, but with a twist...
...must have seemed like a good idea at the onset: Why not retell the mythic story of Orpheus and Eurydice, this time casting the principals as international pop/rock stars? Ergo Salman Rushdie's sixth novel, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Henry Holt; 575 pages; $27.50), which recounts the fabulous lives and careers of the singer-composer Ormus Cama and his beloved co-vocalist Vina Apsara, as remembered by their mutual friend, the news photographer Umeed ("Rai") Merchant. His opening sentence foretells Vina's death--she was swallowed up by an earthquake in Mexico in 1989--and Rai presents himself...
Thus he rails in speeches against the menace of a "sixth extinction," one unlike the prior five extinction spasms, the last of which came 66 million years ago. Those were brought about by natural phenomena. When it occurs, the sixth mass extinction of living organisms will be brought about by people, by a mushrooming population that has doubled in 40 years, to 6 billion, and by human carelessness and commerce. In the 21st century, which Raven would like to see called "the age of biology," he says we must learn to "master the diversity of living organisms...
...wasn't so easy. Will, now a sixth-grader at Gainesville's Westwood Middle School, repeatedly called a local recycling contractor, asking the firm to donate can crushers, and a supermarket, looking for carts for can collection. Even then, his dad Tim, a chemist at UF, and his mom Betsy, who teaches at the university's speech and hearing clinic, had to tell the companies Will was serious...