Word: brings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falls, Pa., tossing autos through plate glass windows as it went. "There was debris coming out of the top of the funnel," said Fireman Paul Gorby. "It was like a big runaway locomotive." The tornado peeled off the center's roof like a box top; rescue workers had to bring in a crane to lift fallen steel , girders that were pinning bodies below. Two people died and 30 were injured...
...Massachusetts, Diane Watson, who was dying of cancer, took the drug under a doctor's supervision because she could not bring herself to discuss her illness with her family. Says she: "MDMA opened up a great emotional sharing." In another case, Kathy Tamm of San Francisco, who suffered from severe attacks of panic long after being raped, was able, while using Ecstasy, to confront her memories of the assault. As Tamm explained to her psychiatrist, "Not only did MDMA enable me to recover my sanity, it enabled me to recover my soul." Therapists who endorse MDMA say that it does...
...wounded. But in the to-and-fro of battle, no accurate casualty assessment was really possible. Cease-fires were announced but not kept; the International Committee of the Red Cross repeatedly tried and failed to enter the areas to evacuate the injured. Eventually, it managed to bring out 32 wounded Palestinians, but many others were left behind without medical attention. According to some accounts, several Palestinians who had been taken to a hospital were slain in their beds by Amal militiamen. Amal leaders in turn charged that angry Palestinians had murdered some sleeping Shi'ite militiamen in a building outside...
...magna cum laude Government concentrator who calls himself a liberal socialist, Huang Yasheng wrote his thesis on agrarian reforms in rural China. Its conclusions took a surprisingly critical view of the communist regime: Huang found that economic changes did not bring about the social progress that the government had sought...
...efforts to improve opportunities for Blacks, such as a 10 year, $5 million program kicked off this April to combat illiteracy among Black schoolchildren. "We too believe apartheid is reprehensible. It's just that we feel we're a force for positive change in South Africa [and can] help bring about social and political equality," Dutton says...