Word: april
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...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Kurt Osburn April 13, 1999 [MODE] Doing a wheelie on a bike [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 50 miles a day for 70 days [THE CAUSE? Hepatitis C (and to break his 11-hr. record for longest wheelie) PREPARATION] Put an extra-large seat on his BMX bike...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Brad Hauter April 7, 1999 [MODE] Lawnmower [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 70 miles a day for 64 days [THE CAUSE? The Keep America Beautiful organization PREPARATION] Sat watching TV for two months straight...
...TRAVELER(S)/STARTED] Oral Champlin and Dick Snow April 1, 1999 [MODE] Covered wagon [EXPECT(S) TO TRAVEL] 30 miles a day for 105 days [THE CAUSE? None (they're just visiting relatives) PREPARATION] Rebuilt the tops of two old wagons...
...mistake, which killed three people and wounded 20, began just about the time of the NATO summit in late April. War planners correctly figured they would soon be ordered to come up with more targets. A mid-level Cia bureaucrat "nominated"--warspeak for picked--the Serbs' Federal Directorate of Supply and Procurement, a hub of Serbian weapons buying and development. He even had its address. "But you can't program bombs by street addresses," a U.S. intelligence official says. "We had to give the Pentagon geo-coordinates." The first mistake occurred when the CIA took the right address and thumbtacked...
...Department's export czar, he knows every sinkhole in the regulatory swamp. Ignore him at your peril -- as executives of Space Systems/Loral found out. A 700-page report to be issued this week by a select House committee chaired by Republican representative Christopher Cox of California tells how, on April 11, 1996, Bryen warned Loral president Robert Berry not to give China any technical help without first getting State Department permission. Berry had just announced the assignment of top company engineer Wah Lim to head a panel of Western scientists who would advise China on possible causes of three rocket...