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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...
...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...