Word: broking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Angeles riots erupted on April 29, 1992, when the news broke that a jury had acquitted several white police officers of beating African-American motorist Rodney King. Three days of rioting ensued, resulting in 58 deaths and nearly $1 billion in property damage...
...heat caused the blaze to spread quickly among some 70,000 wood-and-canvas tents. Firefighters needed several hours to contain the blaze. As often happens in catastrophic fires, the majority of the casualties were victims of the side-effects of the blaze, in this case the stampede that broke out as the flames spread. The fire broke out as the more than two million Muslims making the pilgrimage entered one of the crucial stages of the Haj: the eighth day, when pilgrims must spend the night camping on the desert plain of Mina outside Mecca. The incident is another...
...complete the cycle from egg laying to the stage when fledglings are hardy enough to begin their wanderings through the southern ocean. Typically, the young birds jump into the water only two weeks or so before the ice breaks up. This year, says Kooyman, the ice near Franklin Island broke up in mid-December, two weeks before the fledglings were ready to embark, probably dooming the juveniles to an early death. The story is a reminder of the thin margins that sustain life, even for creatures as durable as the emperor penguin, which has thrived for millions of years...
Suzanna E. Kirk '95, the resident of Gilbert 402, the Currier room in which the fire broke out, was down-stairs at a jazz performance when the fire began in her room...
...religious conversion by Button's mother may have caused Button to be suicidal. "That's certainly the buzz right now in the pilot's community," says TIME's Mark Thompson. "But most attempted suicides are unsuccessful because the person backs out at the last second. From the time Button broke formation, he had 120 minutes to think it over, to turn back, and he didn't." Even considering Button's possible family troubles, Thompson says: "It's hard to picture, in a suicide, that kind of calm, steely mindset...