Word: zipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With kites flying overhead, clowns on stilts, popcorn vendors, jugglers and puppeteers, the event lived up to the town's name, which was chosen to put future residents in a positive frame of mind from the outset. The streets have been named already, mostly for trees, but Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah Drive and Hip-Hip-Hooray Highway would be fine choices for the larger arteries...
...composer, Kenneth ("Babyface") Edmonds. Along with Houston, the album features numbers by such highly regarded R.-and-B. performers as Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige. Yet Houston more than holds her own, particularly on Why Does It Hurt So Bad, with its masterly balance of pop zip and soulful melancholy. She was an enthusiastic advocate of the idea that the album should feature only women--a popular concept these days, with such recent all-female CDs as the pro-choice compilation Spirit of '73 (with Rosanne Cash and others), the MTV-sponsored Ain't Nothin...
Students can reach the Coalition to Save Student Aid hotline at (800) 574-4AID and connect to their local representative's office by using their home zip code...
PARTICLE SLEUTHS When Wolfgang Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
...stage and popped it into his lapel." An accidental flourish: the meeting was held in an old gymnasium in an abandoned school next to ADM's main processing plant in Decatur, complete with the original basketball scoreboard. "For this game," says McWhirter, "the score was ADM 30, opposition zip...