Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look beyond the drugs and the prostitution and see that these are just kids, kids who should be taking driver's ed right now or worrying about which corsage to wear," says executive director Steve LePore. Behind him, several , youths in worn clothing lie on the floor asleep...
...town said sadder prayers than Union, South Carolina, last week. The easiest prayers were for the father who had lost his sons; rather harder for the mother who had surely lost her mind. But the hardest of all were for the boys. Dear God, let them have been asleep that night, snuggled in the safety of their car seats. That way they wouldn't have felt the rough gravel road through the forest, or seen the edge of the dark lake. They would not have wondered why their mother got out of the car, leaving the doors and windows shut...
...failed in the view of at least a few residents. Donald Courtney, 67, a retired forest ranger, is one local who refused Primestar. "I can fall asleep in front of one channel as well as I can with a dozen," he says. Nevertheless, TV has made its mark on Arietta. Video rentals at Farber's General Store have dropped. Twelve-year-old Dean Hotaling isn't playing as much basketball as he used to. ("I watch about three hours a day now. I used to watch one hour.") And the barrage of TV news has quickly turned local viewers into...
...elderly. "There is no law that says women and children first," said Roger Kohen, spokesman for the International Maritime Organization, based in London. "That is something from the age of chivalry." Perhaps there was no time for chivalry aboard the Estonia. Many children, mothers and elderly people were asleep in cabins deep within the ship. Patrons in the upper-deck bars were mainly males. "In the circumstances, it is clear who will survive," said Dr. Steffan Torngren, of Stockholm's Soder Hospital, where 31 victims were treated. "It would be those who are most fit, those who are young, those...
...considered a classic in this subterranean world. Like many zines, it is filled with words. Issue No. 30, for instance, is 82 pages of pure print, sometimes crawling off the page. It contains this paean to punk love: "Punk rock love is . . . looking at her tattoos while she's asleep. Taking showers together. Playing checkers with cigarette butts. Watching her band play . . . Both of you having the same ex-girlfriend . . . Her giving you 10 rolls of duct tape for your birthday. Her beating up skinheads. Going to the prom on her motorcycle and checking in the helmets at the coat...