Word: ashe
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...Dennis Bock's well-wrought first novel The Ash Garden (Knopf; 281 pages) cuts through the moral debates surrounding the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan and paints a humane, detailed tableau of its fallout on both its American creators and those whom it was sent to destroy. Setting fictional characters against a historical landscape, the Canadian author traces the life of Anton B?ll, a German scientist who was a star of the Manhattan Project, as his journey entwines with that of Emiko Amai, a little girl from Hiroshima who lost her face to the world's first atomic...
KERIK: Somebody runs in and yells, "Hit the deck!" As the guy swings the door open and yells that, I see windows shattering in the hallway outside. It feels like an earthquake. All of a sudden there's this gush of black smoke and ash and debris, and it just pours into the room. Some people jump under the desks. We start pushing the mayor to the back...
DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, flashy, homespun cosmetics executive who helped push Mary Kay Inc. to sales of more than $1.2 billion last year; of natural causes; in Dallas. She started her company in 1963 with $5,000, after her male assistant at a direct-sales company was promoted at twice her salary. "I couldn't believe God meant a woman's brain to bring 50[cents] on the dollar," she said. Famously generous, Ash rewarded her loyal sales force of 40,000 with minks, diamonds and her trademark pink Cadillacs...
...Egyptian Foreign Minister who resigned at Camp David in the wake of the historical peace accords between Israel and Egypt in 1978; in Cairo. Kamel was the second Egyptian Foreign Minister to resign in a period of a year, disagreeing with President Anwar Sadat's policies. DIED. MARY KAY ASH, 83, founder of the cosmetics company Mary Kay Inc. and one of the most influential women in American business; in Dallas. Ash created an award system in which she gave deserving saleswomen pink Cadillacs. DIED. MARY WHITEHOUSE, 91, schoolteacher turned feisty antipornography lobbyist; in Colchester, England. Whitehouse created the Clean...
...lifted by the arms and legs. There had been more than 300 of them so far. With Atta's permission, I was given free rein to climb through the rubble, stepping past corpse after corpse, many of them dismembered. Elsewhere, fire had reduced everything--furniture, clothing, people--to ash...