Word: celling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street crime and the plight of the homeless were not enough, New Yorkers now have something really big to worry about: Is Mario Cuomo going to hell? From his Albany County jail cell, where he had been serving ten days for taking part in a militant antiabortion protest, Auxiliary Bishop Austin Vaughan of New York recently warned that the state's Democratic Governor "is in danger of going to hell if he dies tonight" unless he changed his stance on abortion. Cuomo, a Roman Catholic, accepts his church's teaching that abortion is wrong. But he argues that it would...
...that day in June 1964 was life in prison. The verdict of history will hardly judge Nelson Mandela a common criminal. Despite the government's determination to lock him away for good and crush his liberation movement, the unrelenting crusade to abolish apartheid that he waged from a prison cell over the decades made him the supreme symbol of the black struggle in South Africa...
...After the trial, during which they refused to cooperate (Teodorescu tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to plead mental instability), the Ceausescus were taken into the courtyard. "It was a mere quarter-hour or so after the death sentence was pronounced," he says. "They thought they were walking to a cell, when suddenly there was a huge burst of fire. Elena and Nicolae fell head to head. Their bodies spun round, and they fell close to each other." The Times concludes that the bodies were then placed against a wall for the benefit of photographers -- and history...
...would it? According to a report in last week's Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
...fifth morning (I now had a good sense of the time of day), the guard opened the door. He grunted and beckoned towards the stairs. I did not want to ask questions; blind compliance seemed the best way to avoid further injury. As we left the cell, Dennis pressed something into Zac's hand...