Word: blocks
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...morning of Friday, Nov. 27, seven death row inmates attempted to escape from Huntsville Prison, about 80 miles north of Houston. The enterprising fellas apparently used a hacksaw to cut a hole in a recreation yard fence, hid on the roof of a cell block for nearly three hours and then made a mad dash for two 10-foot perimeter fences topped with razor wire. Huntsville guards opened fire immediately, emptying nearly 20 rounds. All the prisoners froze in their tracks and fell to the ground shaken but unhit--all except Martin E. Gurule, who scaled both walls (using either...
Researchers pinpointed a moment in the encodingof the second strand of viral DNA at which one newbuilding block of DNA, known as a nucleotide, isadded...
Kinneen was involved in six consecutive Harvardscores within a five-minute stretch, recording twobuckets, three assists and two steals. She wasalso the author of the game's most vicious block,a swat of an attempted fast-break lay-up byWofford's Meredith Denton midway through thesecond half that left Denton on her back and sentthe ball careening off the wall of LavietesPavilion...
...household tasks and time-management techniques to help her daughter focus. "You'd be asking the impossible to have my child come home, have a snack and do her homework right away. So instead, she comes home, lays her books down, and we go for a walk around the block. It gives her time to vent and re-attune herself...
...mask budget deficits. Enacting such a bold program while keeping the budget balanced will mean pinching funds that pay for programs to which voters seem attached, such as low-income home-energy assistance and environmental enforcement. Moderates within the G.O.P. are likely to use their increased leverage to block major cuts in those areas. Democrats will be happy to join that fight or start their own over the minimum wage, funding for school construction and for children's health--if only to make sure the G.O.P. doesn't steal those issues...