Since 1979, there have been concerted efforts by international bodies to end the practice, including sponsorship by the United Nations of an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation, held each 6 February since 2003.

( Zero must be excluded from both groups since it does not have a multiplicative inverse, which is required for elements of a group.

His most recent novels — Pattern Recognition ( 2003 ), Spook Country ( 2007 ) and Zero History ( 2010 )— are set in a contemporary world and have put his work onto mainstream bestseller lists for the first time.

The peak at the center is the ZPD position (" Zero Path Difference "): Here, all the light passes through the Michelson interferometer | interferometer because its two arms have equal length.

Zero coupon bonds have a duration equal to the bond's time to maturity, which makes them sensitive to any changes in the interest rates.

The Cherry Bomb, Silver and Passionfruit flavors have been discontinued while the diet Ultra flavor has been replaced with the Blue Zero Carb diet blue raspberry flavor.

* Group equity or Zero equity housing cooperatives do not allow members to own equity in their residences and often have rental agreements well below market rates.

Protected areas will usually encompass several other zones that have been deemed important for particular conservation uses, such as Important Bird Areas ( IBA ) and Endemic Bird Areas ( EBA ), Centres of Plant Diversity ( CBD ), Indigenous and Community Conserved Areas ( ICCA ), Alliance for Zero Extinction Sites ( AZE ) and Key Biodiversity Areas ( KBA ) among others.

Being so physically close to Ground Zero, tourism and business had been very slow to return to the area for several years but appears to have rebounded more recently.

Had Year Zero simply described the monster that Pol Pot was, it would have been quickly forgotten.

Four of Ellis ' works have been made into films ; notably, Less Than Zero was rapidly adapted for screen, and a starkly different Less Than Zero film was released in 1987, and Mary Harron's adaptation of American Psycho was released to predominantly positive reviews in 2000.

Matt Skiba and Dan Andriano have both independently recorded split records, Skiba with Kevin Seconds on Asian Man Records and Andriano with Mike Felumlee on Double Zero Records, as well as jointly performing backing vocal duties on the album This is Unity Music by Common Rider.

In the field of real numbers, Zero does not have a reciprocal because no real number multiplied by 0 produces 1.

* Foundation Zero ( F0 ): Grade 6 students who have been accepted to and will begin attending UTS the following school year

James Spader and Robert Downey, Jr. have also been considered members and appeared in several films alongside other Brat Packers, most notably together with Andrew McCarthy in Less Than Zero ( Downey was also in two eighties films with Anthony Michael Hall-Weird Science and Johnny Be Good, as well as The Pick-up Artist with Molly Ringwald ).

Author William Gibson in his novel Zero History uses the term " Mitty demographic " to describe young men that want to dress like soldiers and have an " equipment fetishism " for products that are derived from police and military equipment.

Some critics have argued that " Zero tolerance " policing violates the Law Enforcement Code of Conduct passed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, which says in part: " The fundamental duties of a police officer include serving the community, safeguarding lives and property, protecting the innocent, keeping the peace and ensuring the rights of all to liberty, equality and justice " ( cited in Robinson, 2002 ).

Char favors speed-orientated offensive battle tactics and hates to get hit, even when piloting an I-Field generator equipped unit and beam attacks have minimal to no effect ( Commented when piloting Zero the R in a simulation battle in Portrait of a Young Comet-Char's Deleted Affair ).

The early war bombers that caused such carnage would almost all have been shot down in 1945, many with two shots, by radar-aimed, proximity fuse-detonated anti-aircraft fire, just as the 1941 " invincible fighter ", the Zero, had by 1944 become the " turkey " of the " Marianas Turkey Shoot ".

This rumor may have started with Randy Shilts ' 1987 book And the Band Played On ( and the movie based on it, in which Dugas is referred to as AIDS ' Patient Zero ), but neither the book nor the movie state him to have been the first to bring the virus to North America.

Zoids: New Century Zero takes place several centuries after Guardian Force, where Zoid battles have become a tournament-based league.

These " mortal hunters " were either normal people trying to fight against the monsters, ancient orders ( such as the Shi or the Society of Leopold / Inquisition ) that have protected humanity for centuries, or government agencies ( Project Twilight and Strike Force Zero ) that were equivalent to the X-Files with high-tech monster hunting gear.

In 2008, Spike featured Joanna Dark as sixth on their list of " The Top Video Game Vixens ", and The Age ranked her as the 20th greatest Xbox character of all time even as her Perfect Dark Zero " may not have been the greatest entry for " her as opposed to the first game for the Nintendo consoles.

Under this interpretation, Zero could be lauded as a hero for his candor in participating in that original study.

Ground Zero Theatre and Hit & Myth Productions will be staging the next production at the Playhouse at Vertigo Theatre Centre in Calgary, Alberta, running May 26, 2009 to June 15, 2009, extended to July 12, 2009.

Indeed, trunk roads begin on the parvis of Notre-Dame of Paris at Kilometre Zero.

Woman at Point Zero.

He added the final sentence of the novel, " He never saw Molly again ", at the last minute in a deliberate attempt to prevent himself from ever writing a sequel, but ended up doing precisely that with Count Zero ( 1986 ), a character-focused work set in the Sprawl alluded to in its predecessor.

The satirist D. Dolson Dolson has argued in his book Rule Zero that the Peter Principle is in fact not really applicable, because it implicitly assumes that higher levels of competence are required at higher levels of an organization.

Quake Zero was announced at QuakeCon on August 3, 2007 and will be an updated version of Quake 3 Arena, distributed by free download, run in a browser window and supported by built-in advertising content.

This occurred just before the events at Unimatrix Zero, during which it is revealed that he is fourth in the chain of command.

* Prime Sentinels-by Bastion and Operation: Zero Tolerance, handicapped humans equipped with nanotechnology without their knowledge at Prospero Clinic, used as sleeper agents until activated by attack or presence of a mutant.

In the same year, Zero 7 released You Are Beautiful at All Times.

The Mile Zero is located in the southern part of the city at the corner of Douglas Street and Dallas Road, where there is a small monument.

Since January 18, 2011 Zork Anthology ( featuring Zork I, Zork II, Zork III, Beyond Zork, Zork Zero and Planetfall ) is internationally available at GOG. com, in a form of digital download.

The milestone for Romania's Kilometre Zero is placed just south of University Square in front of the New St. George Church ( Sfântul Gheorghe Nou ) at St. George Square ( Piaţa Sfântul Gheorghe ).

An amazing reception was had at Tampere's Ground Zero, and then it was off to a special performance for the Electronic Music Lover's Society in Lund, Sweden with members of bands such as S. P. O. C. K.

* Zero Wing at arcade-history

Marcus Stern, associate director of the American Repertory Theater, directed a stage adaptation of Donnie Darko at the Zero Arrow Theatre in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the fall of 2007.

Photo by Ernest Brooks ( photographer ) | Ernest Brooks. Zero hour was officially set at 7: 30 am for 1 July 1916.

After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger ( in print as Runway Zero Eight ).

An episode of CBS's 60 Minutes in 2010 focused on the lack of progress at Ground Zero, particularly on the lack of completion dates for a majority of the buildings, the main tower, 1 World Trade Center ( previously known as the Freedom Tower ) having gone through three different designs, and the delays and monetary expense involved.

Image: New York Ground Zero. png | A light still on at Ground Zero remains, 2001.

The Mile Zero monument at the end of the Trans-Canada Highway in Victoria, British Columbia

* Worlds ' End ( collecting The Sandman # 51 – 56, 1993, ISBN 1-4176-8617-0 ): A " reality storm " ( see Zero Hour: Crisis in Time ) strands travelers from across the cosmos at the " Worlds ' End Inn ".

" Delegate Zero " and his " Other Campaign " were at the time in nearby Mexico City, having just organized May Day events there, and quickly arrived at the scene.