Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chances that anyone will die from an asteroid collision with Earth are close to zero [SPACE, March 23]. Perhaps we should take a look at another threat to countless lives, the nuclear bombs around the world. What would happen if one of those went off? NATHAN S. VAN CUREN Maryville, Tenn...
While Viagra doesn't work for every impotent man, it does work for up to 80% of them. "There appears to be no group that has been tested that has a zero response," says urologist Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan of the University of Southern California. Even men with the most severe forms of impotence--spinal-injury victims, diabetics, those who have undergone prostate-cancer surgery--have responded...
Meantime, employers fearing lawsuits are stopping harassment before it starts. Some, like General Motors and Wal-Mart, have instituted zero-tolerance policies banning just about any speech or conduct with sexual undertones, like sending E-mail with a naughty Web address to a co-worker, which not so long ago would have been deemed not just harmless but constitutionally protected. While it's rare for nonthreatening behavior to be ruled harassment, it happens. In 1993 the University of Nebraska forced a grad student to remove from his desk a picture of his bikini-clad wife after two fellow students complained...
...effective without adequate warning. And given the large numbers of undiscovered NEOs still out there, says David Morrison at NASA's Ames Research Center, an asteroid strike could take place with far less than a 30-year warning. Indeed, says Morrison ominously, "the most likely warning time would be zero...
...about Microsoft's licensing agreements with computer makers that effectively banished Netscape from the desktop. They wanted to hear why Microsoft decided to make its Internet browser inseparable from its operating system, Windows 95. And they wanted to know how the company set the price for the browser at zero. "I think there is a single, basic question underlying our inquiry," said chairman Hatch. "Is there a danger that monopoly power is--or could be--used to stifle innovation in the U.S. software industry today...