Word: creeks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Battle Creek, Mich...
Some of the bugs in the shuttle did not catch the astronauts by surprise. During a midweek telecast, Lousma and Fullerton unveiled a cage full of insect passengers, three dozen caterpillar moths, house flies and honeybees. They were on board at the suggestion of Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they...
...million people in an area the size of Massachusetts) that reporters often end up at the same skirmishes, trying to match one another, quote for quote and photo for photo. Earlier this month a crew for Cable News Network struggled along a dirt road as bumpy as a creek bed toward a former school where the army had installed an antiguerrilla operation. With its armed soldiers and landing helicopters, the place provided the kind of "visuals" that television thrives on. Only one sight marred this otherwise perfect photo opportunity: Richard Wagner of CBS and his crew had got there first...
...Fall Creek...
...chills. Many tourers are family groups that simply strike out from the back door after a snowfall. Unplowed roads, golf courses and frozen lakes provide paths for the basis of the sport: rhythmic, exhilarating exercise in the country air. Observes Buck Elliott, operator of Colorado's Crooked Creek Ski Touring ranch: "We're back to a simpler life. Out here, you become more aware of what breathing and eating are all about." -ByJ.D. Reed...