Word: threefold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...workers' biggest complaints is a shift to ceramic dishware, new to all House dining halls this year. According to Crimson measurements, while a stack of 10 of the old style bowls weighed 4.25 pounds, a stack of 10 new bowls weighs 13.75--more than a threefold increase...
...palace of higher fun and learning in Columbus is in good company--lots of it. Almost 300 science centers in the U.S. welcome 115 million visitors a year--"a threefold increase in the past decade alone," says Bonnie VanDorn of the Association of Science-Technology Centers. What's more, 40% of them plan to open new facilities or expand existing ones in the next three years. Already completed is the California Science Center in Los Angeles, launched last year. Two other major overhauls open next month, in Kansas City, Mo., and St. Paul, Minn. Each cost more than $100 million...
...conduct their rituals naked (Fort Hood has forbidden them to do so), use 9-in. daggers called athames in their ceremonies, cast magic spells, and worship, among others, "the horned god" found in pagan traditions. Wiccans are also pacifists, but believe that your actions come back to you threefold and are prepared to accept the consequences of what they do as soldiers. That the Army would be so progressive in its acceptance makes perfect sense to the Wiccans. "The Army has always been ahead of the civilian world on things like racial and sexual equality," says high priestess Palmer...
While a few great apes live in luxury in the new Congo Gorilla Forest in the Bronx, many of their wild relatives are being killed or crowded out of their homelands in Africa. The chief threats to their survival are threefold...
Asteroids are becoming serious business. Just last month a House subcommittee recommended a threefold increase in spending on observation of near-Earth objects. And only a year after astronomers triggered a short-lived scare by suggesting that asteroid 1997 XF11 might someday strike Earth, another newly discovered asteroid is causing concern. This one is 1999 AN10, a kilometer-wide hulk that in 2027 could hurtle past us as little as 20,000 miles away. First spotted in January, the asteroid attracted little attention when Italian astronomers posted preliminary calculations of its orbit on their website. But when these results were...