Word: bus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a week of preparation, they were disguised as tribesmen by the muhajedeen and taken on a seven-hour bus trip to the Afghan border. The trip, which is illegal for Westerners, involved several close calls as the bus passed through Pakistani security checks...
...radiation when the worst U.S. nuclear-power accident struck Three Mile Island. Now Smith, who lives within sight of the crippled generating plant owned by General Public Utilities, wears anti-nuclear-power buttons and frets about her two daughters. Says she: "They had been standing out at the bus stop that morning, so as soon as they come down with any sickness I start to worry about cancer...
...afternoon, Gaspar and his friends go their separate ways, as Gaspar catches the bus back to Watertown, where he and his wife and two young children live. Gaspar says in parting, "You know, what is most valuable about the Ed School is the willingness of Ed School students to share ideas and their wideness of experience from all over...
...known as "sacred monsters," symbols of "the race" that would be reborn in Communism. Pistol-packing Diego trooped about in work shoes, and Frida in elaborate peasant skirts and blouses, her hair bound with ribbons, her fingers weighted with rings. But the finery hid terrible wounds. In 1925 a bus carrying Kahlo was struck by a trolley car. Rescuers found the 18-year-old girl impaled on an iron rod, her pelvis smashed, a foot mangled and her spine bent to nearly a right angle. Frida endured more than 30 operations in her lifetime. None of them stopped the degeneration...
...good weather a bus takes 20 residents a day on outings to nature areas, shopping malls, or "dinners out," and in the springtime ambulatory patients will be able to wander on the grounds...