Word: dirt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...week after the phone call, Richardson and a State Department team were flying over Gogrial, where tires had to be cleared from a dirt airfield below so they could land. "I get out of the plane, and it's a surreal scene from a Tarzan movie," the Congressman recalls. A delegation of threadbare Dinka fighters from Kerubino's army lined up to greet him. Richardson had on a tie and the same blazer he'd worn for good luck in every other hostage negotiation...
...reason not to go to college," he says. "Yeah, I could have taken a year off but I'd just be really bored. Being dirt poor I can't go traveling or anything. I would have just stayed home otherwise...
...front of a faded little store and tells you everything you need to know about the economics of this dying cotton-and-cattle town. The average house here costs $30,000. The average income is barely $20,000. Everywhere buildings are boarded up, abandoned, sinking in the rust-red dirt. The population is 616 and dwindling...
...voodoo, gnosticism, santeria--these and scores more are out there, accessible worldwide. So is the expanding pool of freshly coined sects, some of which will presumably survive. All this may seem unimportant now, with so many Websites looking so gray. But as bandwidth grows, the Web will become a dirt-cheap form of television. Imagine hundreds of Billy Grahams, each preaching a different message to a different audience...
...graphics might be, for you to select this as the "Machine of the Year" doesn't make sense [TECHNOLOGY BUYER'S GUIDE, Nov. 25]. There is more to home computing than playing one of Nintendo's five neat-o video games. For family transportation, would you recommend dirt bikes as cheap, exciting alternatives to a minivan? TODD SPANGLER New York City...