Word: zebras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Zebra: We think of zebras as really cool animals, but in Africa they're everywhere, like dogs. At first, it's like, "Ooh! Cool! Zebra!," and everyone jumps out and runs five miles to take a picture. By the end you're saying, "Good, another zebra." Like squirrels here...
...terms, mutations will arise in the organisms' genetic material. Usually the traits will be either useless or debilitating, but once in a while they'll confer a survival advantage, allowing the individual to live longer and bear more offspring. Over time, the new survival trait -- camouflage stripes on a zebra, antibiotic resistance in a bacterium -- will become more and more common in the population until it's universal...
...fill Tina Turner's shoes, not in a lifetime," says Angela Bassett of her knockout performance as the rock superstar. For Turner, however, it was just a matter of the right shoes. When she saw one of Bassett's outfits, Turner went shopping and bought her two pairs of zebra- striped high heels. For another scene, she literally gave Bassett the shirt off her . . . But let Bassett tell it: "When I did I Might Have Been Queen, I was wearing a little peach-colored T shirt. Tina said, 'Oh, that's so old- fashioned,' and took off her white linen...
...pocket-size monkey with a koala-like face, a hint of stripes like a zebra and tufted ears is the latest species to be discovered in the world's largest rain forest. Named after the Brazilian river near which it was spied, the Maues marmoset is the third new monkey to be found in the forest during the last two years. Such revelations underscore the Amazon's biological richness (it is home to more than a quarter of the world's known primate species) and its continuing mystery...
They are nocturnal artists, private contractors who are making the streets safe for motorists by painting all the city's crosswalks, zebra lines and stop bars with white paint and shiny glass beads. But they are also first-hand witnesses to the city's nightly escapades...