Word: fates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When children disappear, a fate that has befallen 4,500 American kids in the past year, their faces usually turn up as blurry black-and-white snapshots tacked plaintively on poles around their neighborhood. But the crisp likeness of Polly Klaas, the 12-year-old girl who was kidnapped Oct. 1 from her home in Petaluma, California, has shown up everywhere: on television, on computer networks and on flyers in supermarkets, libraries and hospitals. The explanation for the ubiquity of the girl's image extends beyond a fascination with the brazen nature of the abduction: a knife-wielding bearded stranger...
Almost immediately his fate was appropriated by columnists and talk-show hosts, who compared Shingledecker with the five-year-old alleged to have been under the influence of MTV's Beavis and Butt-head cartoon when he started a fatal fire. And on Capitol Hill, Shingledecker haunted a long-scheduled Commerce Committee hearing on screen violence, where Attorney General Janet Reno took off after a brace of entertainment executives...
...Cage's failure was occasioned by his own audacity and the intractability of human nature. Confucius, who analyzed and annotated the I Ching more than two millenniums ago, summed it up in the book's appendix: "Change has an absolute limit." Cage's fate was that, by chance, he found...
...Bolsheviks in Yekaterinburg, Czar Nicholas II, his wife Alexandra and three of their children will receive a proper burial. The bones were discovered in a pit outside the town in 1991. Meanwhile, one week after honor guards ended their 69-year watch outside the tomb of Vladimir Lenin, the fate of his embalmed corpse remains undetermined...
...Fate was more responsible for the women's lackluster performance than poor running. Injuries sidelined two of the Crimson's top runners as well as two of their teammates...