Word: brentwood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...routine Tulelake operation stood in marked contrast to the more dramatic previous test, 350 miles away in a Brentwood, Calif., strawberry field. There, technicians wrapped in head-to-foot "space suits" -- required by federal regulations governing airborne use of potentially toxic substances -- sprayed 2,400 strawberry plants with a slightly different strain of the same ice- inhibiting bacterium. The event drew a crowd of reporters and government officials, who arrived with elaborate devices to sniff the air and taste the dirt around the test site. The start of the experiment was delayed for an hour because...
...mounds of explanatory literature and plant tours for county officials. The final legal hurdle fell the day before the first test. "The court is convinced," said Sacramento Superior Court Judge Darrel Lewis, "that ((the experiments)) are not unleashing some deleterious bacteria that are going to consume the city of Brentwood or anywhere else...
...Times Editor: Maia "9 to 5" Harris Hackensack and Berkshires Editor: Jon "Pleeeese write a Confi Picce" Moses Kahn Social Secretary: Shari "I am going swimming" Rudavsky Classical Music Editor: Jim "Whaaaaaat" Schwartz Postal Director: Jim "ten more minutes" Solomon Communication Editor: Bruce "Take this job and..." Kluckhohn Janitor: Brentwood "aka Beej aka BJ" Martin Lunch at Grendels Editor: Dahlia "think conservative" Weinman Four-Color Advertising Manager: Mark "Please, take my business card" Diker Cadillac Editor: Mark "pimpmobile" Segel East Asian Editor: Tai "Moo Bernstein" Hah Hospital Administrator: Pat "Can I show you my gallbladder?" Sorrento Food Truck Operator: Brian...
...Program taught me how to live with my pain through such methods as biofeedback, physical therapy, exercise and relaxation. I now attend biweekly meetings of the local chapter of Chronic Pain Outreach, a nonprofit support group that provides speakers who help us cope with our problems. Robert C. Lucas Brentwood...
...opiates, called endorphins, which induce the trancelike state that runners in particular achieve after about 40 minutes of strenuous effort. Athletes sometimes become addicted to these opiates and push themselves to the point of injury to get their usual dosage. Generally, though, the effects are benign. William Glasser, a Brentwood, Calif. psychotherapist and author of Positive Addiction, offers the laid-back argument that running "becomes a way to access your own creativity...