Word: disasterous
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Barring an unforeseen disaster, legendary Baltimore Oriole Cal Ripken tonight will tie a record many thought untouchable -- Lou Gehrig's streak of 2,130 consecutive games in major league baseball. Wednesday, he'll break it. TIME sportwriter Steve Wulf says Ripken's achievement can be explained in a word: attitude...
In one of the world's worst train wrecks, two New Delhi-bound trains collided, killing more than 300 people. The disaster occurred when the first train was stopped after it hit an animal, and the second train--speeding down the same track--was not warned about the problem. Police...
According to partial transcripts and comments by the lawyers in court, Fuhrman describes engaging in police misconduct of the most damning kind: beating suspects bloody, coercion and badgering minorities. Contrary to his sworn testimony last March that he had not used the word nigger in the past 10 years, Fuhrman...
One final difficulty for the initiative is the manner in which it is being presented. In May 1993 Warren Christopher traveled to Europe to discuss Bosnia and, instead of forcefully presenting the new American plan, halfheartedly canvassed the Europeans for their views. Neither the Americans nor the allies have forgotten...
The excerpts from "Industrial Society and Its Future" bear the stamp of an earnest thinker who has reinvented the wheel and wonders why nobody is paying attention. Modern life is hard, the Unabomber announces: "The moral code of our society is so demanding that no one can think, feel and...