Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hard to find a society even roughly comparable to ours that has found a painless formula for keeping divorce rare. Japan has a low divorce rate--and divorce is considered so shameful that it actually harms one's career. Victorian England had a divorce rate close to zero long after divorce was legalized--and men who left their families risked being ostracized. In 1950s America, when the divorce rate was still fairly low, Victorian stigma was still half-alive...
...mostly shrugged them off. But one of Germany's biggest magazines has pushed him too far. Cruise, who has two adopted children with wife NICOLE KIDMAN, is suing Bunte for $60 million for quoting him in a Q.-and-A. as saying that he has a "zero sperm count." According to Cruise's publicist Pat Kingsley, "Not only is it not true, but he didn't say it." Bunte, which just lost a lawsuit to Princess Caroline, has fired its deputy editor but says many magazines have made this claim before...
Just months after his '92 upset, O'Brien set the world record in the decathlon with 8,891 points at a meet in Talence, France, but no amount of points could make people forget his zero at the Olympic trials. He and Reebok parted company, then he signed on with Nike. Even without the gold to his name, O'Brien is a sponsor's delight, with his radiant good looks--coppery skin, sculpted 6-ft. 2-in., 185-lb. body with an unimaginable 3% of body fat--and affable nature. He already has deals to the tune...
Which is fine--if we could all agree that it's only a game, with near-zero relevance to anything that matters, like family or work or love. Most women hoping to score on the beach can forget about seaweed wraps and treadmill binges: better to fill the cooler with classy microbrews and have your resume tattooed to your upper body. The hardball swimsuit competition can be left to the young and the buff, or a body double if you can afford...
...lecture when a problem is done, Mazur asks students to key in their answers on hand-held consoles at their seats. If there is a wide range in the answers, he asks them to consult among themselves and try again. After a few minutes, the responses tend to zero in on the right answer...