Word: spans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard held a 2-1 lead through most of the second period against the Big Green, but a wrist shot from senior defenseman Matt Scorsune at 14:52 opened a three-goal outburst in the span of five minutes to turn a tight game into a rout...
Totman's goal at 10:31 came off what was the last in a series of corners for the Crimson in a span of only a few minutes...
...seconds Estimated attention span of a goldfish Sources: The Washington Post, AP, Roper Starch Worldwide, American Pet Products Manufacturers Association
...biologists who believe that aging and death are as inevitable as taxes. No one really knows if human longevity will come up against a fixed barrier somewhere or if, like the sound barrier, it is there only to be broken. Some gerontologists say the limit of the average life-span is 85 years; others, 95, 100, 150 and beyond. No one understands the economic barriers either. Ronald Lee, a demographer at the University of California, Berkeley, calculates that for each year we add to the average life-span, the economy will have to grow 1% to pay for our care...
...band set its own unofficial record at the weekend game with six conductors whose tenures span five decades, keeping time for the intricate half-time show...