Word: backpacker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...claims an audit of his ministry's books shows $83 milli on unaccounted for by his predecessor, Bucaram's brother Adolfo. And the Comptroller's office is investigating a $40-million program designed to make good on a Bucaram campaign pledge to give every school-age child a free backpack. Of 400,000 ba ckpacks ordered from Colombia, only 3,000 arrived. The money, of course, is gone. Bucaram continues to maintain he is the victim of political persecution by a "civilian dictatorship" that has taken over Ecuador--and that he was the nation's "most honest president" the last...
...police were able to detonate the second bomb harmlessly. The bomb that did go off inside the club had been stuffed with nails to serve as shrapnel, as was the Centennial Park weapon. And the bomb found last week in the lounge's parking lot was hidden in a backpack, as was the Olympic bomb. While the parallels were hardly conclusive, Atlantans awoke Saturday morning to face the possibility that their city harbored a serial bomber...
...deadline is also inching up for Let's Go travel guides, a Harvard summer stand-by. You'll see the world (or at least a small portion of it) with only backpack and pen if you're selected to be a researcher-writer. Applications are available at Harvard Student Agencies, 67 Mount Auburn St., and are due February...
...Spokesman-Review in 1995 that the company coddles its gay and lesbian workers. The FBI reportedly has records that show someone made collect calls from Atlanta to Barbee's home in the Idaho Panhandle around the time of the explosion. Meanwhile, an FBI informant apparently sold the suspects a backpack similar to the one used in Atlanta...
Cockroaches are used to inhabiting the dark underside of life, but scientists at the University of Tokyo are exploring ways that la cucaracha can become more socially redeeming. Using hardy American roaches, scientists remove their wings, insert electrodes in their antennae and affix a tiny backpack of electric circuits and batteries to their carapace. The electrodes prod them to turn left and right, go backward and forward. The plan is to equip them with minicameras or other sensory devices so that they can crawl into pipes to track vermin or, in a more heroic endeavor, be sent into earthquake rubble...