Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...peckii needs excellent vision in order to prevent its own extinction. "Sex pheromones from females probably help males locate the general neighborhood of a wasp," says Ehmer. But the male, who lives less than 6 hrs. after taking flight, must rely on his eyesight to zero in quickly on that wasp and its female parasite so he can perpetuate his species before he expires...
...more realistic than abstinence and safer than intercourse. "If we teach kids about other kinds of sexual exploration that help them wait for intercourse until they are really ready, we let girls find out about their desire...and let kids have an option not to go immediately 'from zero to 60.' Teaching sexual gradualism is as sensible as teaching kids to drive...
...inciting violence, aggravated menacing and ethnic intimidation. One was also charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated murder; another checked into a medical center for psychiatric evaluation. All told, 11 students were suspended. At a press conference on Friday, Cleveland Mayor Michael White said, "There is going to be a zero tolerance to any child bringing violence into a school." Parents and lawyers for the suspects contended that authorities were overreacting to teenage boasting and misunderstandings. Dan Shields, an attorney for two of the suspended students, told CNN that one of them had a map of South High only because...
Keith Jarrett specializes in surprises. His youthful stints with the bands of Miles Davis and Charles Lloyd put him at ground zero of the jazz-rock fusion movement. Then, in the 1970s, he unplugged his keyboards and started giving the totally improvised, all-acoustic solo concerts that established him as the most individual (and successful) jazz pianist of his generation. The '80s saw him recording arrestingly fresh versions of pop ballads with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette--as well as Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier on piano and harpsichord...
...weeks of travel throughout China. A born storyteller, he often recalled his childhood in a tiny village northwest of Beijing. Like most Chinese peasants of that era, Zhenbing's parents were too poor to buy coal. Instead, in a climate like Boston's, where winter temperatures often plunged below zero, they burned dried leaves to heat their mud hut. Their home's inside walls were often white with frost from November to April...