Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the blast blew apart three offices in the CFIA, the overall damage was minimal as no books were lost and no private files were destroyed...
...helmeted police officers, seemingly emulating their Chicago prototypes, beat screaming students with their billy clubs repeatedly just for the pleasure of it in the flat silver light of daybreak, an illusion was smashed. Harvard would no longer be an ivy-covered sanctuary in an America that was coming apart...
...effect of last week's maneuvering was to leave the candidates only inches apart on welfare: both would require recipients to go to work after two years; both would cut off all benefits after five years for the able-bodied; both would crack down on deadbeat dads. And both would allow states to cut off payments to unwed teenage mothers. So much consensus, however, may be bad for real reform: now that it's no longer a defining issue in the campaign, it probably won't go anywhere anytime soon...
...nuclear defense: propelling a fusillade of cannonball-size steel spheres at an approaching asteroid. In a high-velocity encounter with a speeding NEO, explains Gregory Canavan, a senior scientist at Los Alamos, "the kinetic energy of the balls would change into heat energy and blow the thing apart...
...University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, Timothy Spahr, 26, peered through a stereoscopic microscope, shook his head and looked again. In the combined image of two telescopic photos he had shot 30 minutes apart a few nights earlier, a bright dot with a small tail stood out starkly against the background of fixed stars. "I was extremely excited, heart pounding and all that stuff," says Spahr, a graduate student from the University of Florida who was surveying the skies for undiscovered asteroids. He immediately shot and developed a second set of photos, and was shocked to see that in just...