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With each passing day, those marooned on the islands faced new perils. Virtually all buildings had been leveled, all roads and bridges destroyed; most of the survivors had no shelter, no clothing, no medicine, no food. There was little fresh water, and many were forced to drink a salty brine that had been exposed to the elements and was probably polluted by decomposing bodies. The corpses were ubiquitous. "It was terrible," said Mohammad Taher, who arrived on Urirchar the day after the disaster. "I could not believe what I saw. Bodies were all around. I myself buried at least...
Three Harvard seniors last week were named to the Brine-Intercollegiate Women's Lacrour Association's All-America team...
...today, it's hard to picture a kid walking into Brine's and asking for a jersey with Lynn Dickey's number on it. Dickey's never even been to a Hula Bowl, much less a Super Bowl...
There were no casualties, Vasilyev told an interviewer for Izvestiya, because workers spotted dangerous splitting in the dam and managed to evacuate the immediately threatened area in tune. Nonetheless, he conceded that the accident had serious environmental consequences. Nearly 6 million cu. yds. of thick brine spilled into the Dniester, spreading pollution almost all the way to the Black Sea port of Odessa, 360 miles to the southeast...
...Blackie before he was Jack Dempsey, and he was William Harrison Dempsey before that. Also the Manassa Mauler, for the Colorado cow town where he was born on June 24, 1895. Toughening his face by marinating it in brine, hardening his jaw by chomping pine gum, Dempsey set out hoboing across the West and brawling in saloons. "You and your opponent would go at it," he exlpained, "and if the bar patrons liked it, they'd pass...