Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crack! That was the sound of the Christian Right punching my jaw as I walked out of my Adams House room for dinner two weeks ago. Left in the door box was a "newspaper" titled "She's a Child--Not a Choice," printed by the Human Life Alliance of Minnesota Education Fund Inc. The cover was a color close-up of a "16-week-old baby developing in the womb." On the back was stamped: "Distributed by the Harvard-Radcliffe Alliance for Life." At least that solves the mystery of how it arrived...
...less from Washington" mantra is not an empty slogan. Alone among candidates, the soft-spoken Tennessean goes out of his way to dampen what voters expect. No law passed in Washington, he says, can fix the social pathologies that leave eighth-graders gunned down in a Florida school or crack babies crying in a Michigan clinic. Only community action can. He wants citizens "to get off their butts...
...rerack" their rods in ever more tightly packed pools. Sandwiched between the rods is a neutron-absorbing material called Boraflex that helps keep them from "going critical." After fuel pools across the country were filled in this way, the industry discovered that radiation causes Boraflex to shrink and crack. The NRC is studying the problem, but at times its officials haven't bothered to analyze a pool's cooling capacity before granting a reracking amendment. "It didn't receive the attention that more obvious safety concerns got," says Inspector General Norton...
Every place he went it was the same; the crowd, and his own aides, waited for his soul to crack open, just enough for a quick, reassuring peek. His advisers even imagined what he would say the next time some pretender like Alexander dismissed him as a man worthy of people's respect but not their vote: "I didn't leave a piece of me in Europe only to be told by someone who never served that I didn't have something more to give to my country." But that scalding speech Dole would not give, and even his allies...
...violence on the island is believed to be drug related. "San Juan has become what Miami used to be. You see 15-year-olds with guns. People are afraid to go out at night," says U.S. attorney Guillermo Gil, the victim of a carjacking by a teenager high on crack. In the summer of 1993 the drug trade had got so bad that Governor Pedro Rossello sent in the National Guard to patrol housing projects, where much of the business is conducted. Two years later, not much has changed. Judges are lenient and bail low, says Pedro Toledo, Puerto Rico...