Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gunman opened fire with a high-powered rifle in the university town of Chapel Hill, N.C., about 2 p.m. today, ripping off as many as three dozen shots that killed two people and wounded a bystander who tackled him, as well as a female police officer. After hiding in a doorway for nearly an hour, he was shot by police, then tackled by a student who is a Marine, as he tried to reload. One of the dead apparently was a student who was trying to get away on a bicycle as the shooter made his way down a crowded...
...TMFONT 1 d #666666 d {Sources: GOOD -- The New England Journal of Medicine; NEJM; Science; Dana- Farber Cancer Institute}]BAD -- Journal of the American Medical Association; Associated Press; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
Outwitting embarrassed prison authorities, five convicted murderers staged a spectacular escape from Florida's Glades Correctional Institution. The inmates got away by meticulously digging a tunnel from the prison chapel (which they devoutly attended) to a spot just beyond the prison fence. At week's end the dangerous and presumedly armed men were still at large...
...original six fugitives was captured quickly after the breakout, and told police that the six men, who are all Cuban, had planned to go their separate ways after their flight. The prisoners used spoons to dig a 60-ft. tunnel, 8 ft. under the ground, from the prison chapel to the other side of the surrounding wall over a three-week period...
...other times he will sit or kneel with eyes closed, his forehead cradled in his left hand, his face contorted intensely, as if in pain. At this time, too, he brings to his God the prayer requests of others. His prie-dieu, at the front center of the chapel, has a padded armrest. It lifts up, and underneath there is a small container for a couple of prayer books and a big stack of intentions, written on yellow sheets. Last month the stack was 200 sheets thick, and the one on the top had nine different names written...