Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...university football field in late 1942. Built up in layers inside wooden framing, it took the shape of a doorknob the size of a two-car garage--a flattened graphite ellipsoid 25 ft. wide and 20 ft. high, weighing nearly 100 tons. Dec. 2 dawned to below-zero cold. That morning the State Department announced that 2 million Jews had perished in Europe and 5 million more were in danger; American boys and Japanese were dying at Guadalcanal. It was cold inside the squash court, and the crowd of scientists who assembled on the balcony kept on their overcoats...
...fiction doesn't want or need to make much sense. It seeks astonishment, terror, wonder, ecstasy and dread. It is spectacular and mythic, an oxygen tent for society's daydreams. Science fiction cordially ignores many vital technologies, such as, say, garbage recycling. Recycling is hugely important, but it has zero science-fictional thrill...
...German chemist Walther Nernst explains why absolute zero (about -273[degrees]C) can never be reached; this becomes the third law of thermodynamics...
...costing too much money and time," says Novak. She now agrees with her department's Public Integrity Section, which has steadfastly maintained it is willing, able and professional enough to conduct investigations of administration officials. Reno's opposition reduces the chances of renewing the independent counsel statute to near zero. Although committee chairman Fred Thompson criticized some of her independent counsel decisions, don't count on him either to save the statute: He's never supported the law for some of the same reasons as Reno...
...just reading tea leaves, projecting what is famously difficult to project. For inflation to take off, Japan and the rest of Asia will have to wake from a deep sleep before Europe or the U.S. starts to nod off. Interest rates in Japan, by the way, dropped to near zero last week. Inflation? The government is prodding people to buy something, anything, to keep prices from sinking. Even if there is a global recovery, competition aided by technology advances will serve as the price police...