Word: dust
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...county had paid $18 million in settlements to children who were abused while in its custody. In the case of Jesus, a nine-year-old who weighed only 28 lbs. and could hardly speak after his angel dust-addicted parents committed suicide, county workers failed to visit him in his foster home for four months. During that time, he was beaten, sodomized, burned on his genitals and nearly drowned by his foster parents. He became a spastic paraplegic. By 1990 the state was threatening to take over Los Angeles County's child-welfare-services system...
...HUBBLE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE AS irrelevant as they are beautiful. Suppose our vision were limited to the range of the human eye and the resources spent on seeing farther into the universe had been devoted to improving our own speck of cosmic dust, the earth. How much worse off would we be? JAMES H. REYNOLDS Berkeley, California...
...second act the plot unravels: Fairfax gets Elsie, and poor Point gets a mouthful of dust, despite his "pretty, pretty wit." Phoebe's father gets together with the Dame Carruthers (played very well by Katherine Bryant), and Shadbolt is left with nothing. As we would expect, loose ends are drawn and tied into a neat how and after over 2 1/2 hours, with few moments of truly good performance, we are grateful...
Edward's home on long Island had two-stories and five bedrooms. The overpainted dark brown gable needed repair, and the front garden--which Edward had spent summers cultivating during high school--was barren. Crisp, paper-thin leaves held tentatively to sickly vines, flaking off into small puffs of dust in the wind. Edward heaved a heavy sign and rang the doorbell...
THAT IMPORTANCE IS IMMENSE, however. Some of the smallest features visible in the photo--delicate, stalklike projections reaching out from the clouds--are actually infant star systems the size of our solar system, just now emerging from the gas and dust that shrouded their birth. The ability to see them in such unprecedented detail has told astronomers an enormous amount about how stars are born and why some are circled by planets and others are not. "People had come up with plausible theories about star birth," says Arizona State University astronomer Jeff Hester, leader of the team that took...