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...tribute to hipness, we offer the top 10 hippest Baltimore Oriole nick-names (compiled by Charm City locals Andy Fine and Andy Cameron, with an assist by yours truly...
Casale and Lerman think it is highly significant that Baby Boomers are becoming increasingly concerned with protecting the environment. But green politics, while important, is more or less concerned with quality of life issues. It entails no sacrifice and is not really an effort to assist those who have been screwed over by life...
What if a less skilled captain had been at the controls of that jumbo jet, struggling under emergency conditions that no pilot had ever faced? Or if an off-duty airline pilot, who happened to be on board, had not rushed to the cockpit to assist him? Or if the 181-ft.-long aircraft had ripped apart in even a slightly different way? Or if that Sioux City cornfield had been drought baked and hard instead of rain soaked and soft...
...immediate help. Even before Flight 232 was in sight, Dr. David Greco, heading the medical disaster teams, was hovering in a helicopter. A dozen ambulances and four other choppers were ready to speed survivors to the two local hospitals, and police, fire and National Guard units were rushing to assist...
...observed that poverty was more dehumanizing than any modern machine. Eight years before Salman Rushdie outraged the Imam, Naipaul had pinpointed the problem of true believers: "In the fundamentalist scheme the world constantly decays and has constantly to be re-created. The only function of intellect is to assist that re-creation...