Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medal contender in Atlanta. Lisa Leslie, the 6-ft. 5-in. center, led the Americans with 17 points. She said the team is paying no attention to its winning streak. "It means nothing to us," she said. "When we go to the Olympics, it's going to be zero-zero...
...wellspring of its power. Not that the individual journalists working for the major concerns are themselves evil, but they are trapped in a system that perpetuates mind mush as news. They are assigned stories that matter not in the least to the viewers or readers, that have zero impact on their daily lives. The news only serves to maintain the status quo, in which we are glued to the television while the advertising profits of media magnates skyrocket...
...wildlife managers gathered in Bozeman, Montana, to share what they had learned about the disease and map out a strategy for fighting it. Unfortunately, there was precious little hard information to share. No one is sure exactly how the disease gets started, how it spreads so easily, why it zeroes in on rainbows or how it can be stopped. "Our data base is almost zero," says Karl Johnson, a virologist who spearheaded the search for the Ebola virus, and is helping to lead this effort. "There are unanswered questions everywhere...
...Mount Everest is a tough climb, to be sure, but not the monster it once was. Weathers, 50, a wealthy pathologist from Dallas, is not a professional mountaineer. But he was in the best shape of his life. He had clothing designed to protect him to 80 degrees below zero. And he had paid $60,000 to Rob Hall--a renowned New Zealand climber and guide who had seen 39 people like Weathers to the top of the world in the past four years. "Rob felt we all had a very good chance of reaching the summit," Weathers would...
...climb for Outside magazine, stood at the top of the world, he noticed something ominous: clouds were approaching from the valley below. Within two hours they had arrived and metastasized into a monster: shrieking winds blew sheets of snow horizontally at 65 knots. A "whiteout" dropped visibility to zero, and wind chill plunged to -140[degrees] F. "It was chaos up there," says Krakauer. "The storm was like a hurricane, only it had a triple-digit wind chill. You don't have your oxygen on, you're out of breath, you can't think." In one horrifying vignette after another...