Word: cold
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...late. It was dark. It was cold...
...based joggers has turned the Arlington Memorial Bridge over the Potomac River into an anger zone. Last month bikers were banned from hiking trails in California's Santa Monica mountains. In St. Louis, where a motorist has been known to slosh a bucket of water on a cyclist in cold weather, someone sprinkled tacks on the route of a Labor Day cycle tour and flattened the tires of some 40 bikes. Motorist-biker tensions around St. Louis grew high last month after Bicyclist John S. Reif Jr., 22, a nationally ranked triathlete, was fatally injured in a head-on collision...
Such are the tensions that animate The Color of Blood, Brian Moore's 16th novel. The setting here is the rather '60s-ish cold-war zone of Central Europe, an anonymously rainy, grainy place of black limousines and border checkpoints. But Moore's decidedly up-to-the-minute subject, invoking issues as topical as liberation theology and the Solidarity movement in Poland, is % the way in which a religious leader in a political world separates good causes from mixed motives. As Moore's protagonist, Cardinal Stephen Bem, asks an aide, "Are we filling the churches because we love God more...
However, other than blaming someone else, thereis little one can do to relieve a cold. Wackeradvised students without a fever to take lots offluids and some asprin. Students with a fevershould "come see UHS," he said...
Asked for any final comments, Wacker said, "Ihope I don't get [the cold]--but I usually...