Word: bags
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...tense time for U.S. law-enforcement agents, who are on the lookout for possible terrorism planned to coincide with the millennium celebrations. "He's connected with someone," said Richard Clarke, U.S. national coordinator for counterterrorism. "People don't just walk around with that stuff in their kit bag." One theory is that Noris--who, law-enforcement officials say, is actually an Algerian named Ahmed Ressam, 32--had been dispatched to wreak havoc at the New Year's Eve celebration at Seattle's Space Needle, which is close to a hotel where he had reserved a room. Some speculated, though with...
...stays put and seems perturbed--the back seat is not so big--when we welcome a young couple, Alexander and Yaineris, who bustle in, exhaling with relief. They have a chicken with them. A live chicken. Condela laughs at our surprise. The chicken is small and in a plastic bag--its red, confused little head poking out. Alexander and Yaineris are married, and have been visiting her parents; they're headed back home to Trinidad. The ocean is a few hills to our right. Tour buses whip past us doing 75 m.p.h. The tour buses are always empty, always doing...
...ROWLING Harry Potter creator gets kids to bag TV, Nintendo for (!!) reading. And without a Happy Meal...
...BACK Where should kids under 13 be seated in the car? The government strongly recommends the backseat, especially if there is a front-passenger air bag. Yet a New England study in December's Pediatrics journal shows that kids are being ferried in the front seat in nearly a quarter of vehicles (in 1 of 6 equipped with a passenger air bag, and in 1 of 3 without one). During the heavy-driving holiday season, safety experts urge parents to heed carefully the well-known seating precaution...
...face hidden by a paper-bag helmet, plays an improvised war game with toy soldiers on his kitchen table. An explosion startles him, the room bursts into flames, and a giant totes him out of the late 20th century and into 1st century Rome. Hence, the action will take place in both ages. Imperial warriors, caked with the dust of conquest, tramp through the Coliseum like bulky action figures. Their leader Titus (Hopkins) is a straight-spoken military man of the past; his rival, the emperor Saturninus (Cumming), is pure oil of modern politician, oozing endearments and threats, riding through...