Word: aurora
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...phone, waited to hear whether an attack had been confirmed. About 12 minutes after the mystery missile soared onto the radar screens, military analysts could see that it was not heading for Russian territory. It turned out to be a Norwegian scientific rocket sent aloft to observe the aurora borealis. The Norwegians had dutifully notified the Russian embassy in Oslo, but the word was never relayed to the military. "For a while," says Sergei Yushenkov, a member of the Russian parliament's Defense Committee, "the world was on the brink of nuclear...
...communications satellite in January. Though solar storms may sound ominous, they pose no threat at all to humans -- after all, they've been happening regularly for billions of years. NASA's astronomers note that this eruption could miss our little blue dot altogether. If not, look for an enhanced aurora borealis -- the Northern Lights that create a brilliant effect in the northern skies...
Although the show is stolen by Suarez's seductively lucid performance, passion flows freely between every member of the ballet. With echoes of her role as the youthful Princess Aurora in "The Sleeping Beauty," Ponomarenko dances with the broken-hearted delicacy of an innocent girl losing her first love to another woman. Her mournful poignancy pulls at one's heartstrings so much that one cannot be completely sympathetic toward Carmen. On a more upbeat note, however, DiMarco and his fellow toreadors strut their stuff with a confident grace that compliments that of Carmen herself. Berdo, as the torn Don Jose...
Applying their purchasing muscle to everything from gurneys to latex gloves, the large outfits are jolting a sleepy industry. At AMR's command center atop an Aurora high-rise, five dispatchers hunched in front of consoles track 60 ambulances with the aid of satellites. In Oregon, where the firm also has a lock on most of the nonemergency transport business, AMR last year added Kaiser's 343,000 members to its client base, reflecting that industry's consolidation too. Boasts chief operating officer George DeHuff, "Big providers can see the benefits of dealing with...
...they must now fend off a backdraft of sorts from public fire departments eager to protect their jobs and budgets. In most communities, fire fighters answer 911 calls. But after treating and stabilizing victims, they often hand off the transport of the injured to a private ambulance--as in Aurora--which collects the entire bill, upwards of $1,000 for a seriously injured patient...