Word: bitter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mine on vacation in Tahiti. The picture in front is of a bunch of smiling, tanned people in bathing suits on a beautiful, sun-drenched beach. The note on the back is short. "Having a great time," she wrote. "Wish you could be here." As if I wasn't bitter enough, still shivering from having just run over to the Mather mail boxes through the cold of a January morning in Cambridge, she signed a short P.S. at the bottom: "Hope finals are going well." I walked back to my room, to 45 pages of writing and two finals...
...number of Tupac Amaru rebels are held. The appearances are designed to show that in spite of the crisis, the business of state goes on. Fujimori is preparing for an important visit next week from Ecuador's president, Abdala Bucaram. The two countries have long been involved in a bitter border war and the visit, the first for an Ecuadoran head of state, is seen as essential to establishing a lasting peace. Fujimori's return to public life is intended to show his government easily handling the hostage situation. So far, the Peruvian media seems to agree with him. Television...
...heard about the conflict between the Hutus and the Tutsis which has torn apart Rwanda since 1994. In addition, many of us are aware that over one million Hutu refugees fled to neighboring Zaire as a result of the insurrection. But how many of us are concerned about the bitter fighting that has commenced again this month...
...news is promising. Many children are rebounding. But conducting those tests is complicated, since most protease inhibitors are available only as capsules, not in liquid form, which is more suitable for kids. At St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, researchers open the capsules and mix the bitter medicine with food. "This is not the best way to do it," says Dr. Walter Hughes, who heads the AIDS clinical-trial unit. "But if you have a child who is going to die in six months, you take those chances...
...back! Steve Jobs is returning to Apple, the company he co-founded in 1976 in a California garage with Steve Wozniak and then left in a bitter dispute 11 years ago. Apple has announced that it is buying Jobs' NeXT Software Inc. for $400 million and bringing Jobs himself in to help buttress the combined company against the depredations of competitor Microsoft...