Word: zeros
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Authorities have only themselves to blame for that transformation. Determined to prevent any disruption of the parliamentary session, military brass turned Jakarta into an armed camp. Troops blocked off key intersections as well as the Parliament building--ground zero for the protests that helped topple Suharto in May. Warships and even a submarine prowled inexplicably in the harbor. More ominously, an additional 125,000 civilian "volunteers"--thugs hired mostly from Indonesia's fiery Muslim youth groups--fanned out across the city to intimidate the opposition...
...about 5 o'clock on Thursday afternoon in August 1996, when a dense gray cloud descended over Route 73, a two-lane road near Geismar, La., cutting visibility to zero and triggering a rear-end collision. As State Trooper Ross Johnson, a fresh-faced, 25-year-old Marine Corps veteran, drove toward the accident, he noted that every car headed his way had headlights on and windshield wipers flapping. When Johnson got out of his patrol car, he suddenly got hit by the heavy smell of ammonia. He ushered the drivers of the two cars out of the cloud...
...telling the truth when I say I was not pleased that the off-yellow banana I bought last week bore a bright yellow sticker bearing the ABC logo along with the ostensibly ironic legend TV. ZERO CALORIES. I'm no food purist, and I know bananas are supposed to have stickers. But they're supposed to say chiquita, and that makes sense. Chiquita produces bananas. ABC produces the pasty mashed potato that is Dharma & Greg...
...Memorandum requires that the Palestinian side pursues a policy of "zero tolerance for terror and violence" and "take all measures necessary in order to prevent acts of terrorism, crime and hostilities," thereby subordinating the human rights of Palestinians in the name of Israel's arguably overstated security imperative. Indeed, Human Rights Watch has found that since the signing of the Memorandum two weeks ago, there have been widespread instances of torture of Palestinians during interrogations as well as unfair trials...
...Glenn is recovering more quickly, it may mean that the biological mechanisms behind aging-and zero-gravity-caused deterioration are indeed the same, said John Charles, of NASA's life-sciences division...