Word: gearing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...darkness falls on the skate park, the carefree mood is once again pierced by the harsh reality of a life in Tehran. An 18-year-old skateboarder who voted for the first time this summer gathers his gear. He'll be moving out of the country this fall. "I'm glad I'll be leaving this place soon," he says. "It's gotten to be unbearable...
...Iranian parliament, is not a good place to hold a protest rally. The space is small and the streets around it are large, easily filled with cops who can then see everyone and everything that tries to approach. One witness said there were three soldiers in full riot gear for every protester and that there were guard dogs and Basij wielding metal pipes to dissuade would-be demonstrators from gathering...
...health officials are bracing for a resurgence of the new H1N1/09 flu virus this fall, when the influenza season kicks into high gear with the resurgence of cold weather. By October, the government hopes to have 120 million doses of vaccine ready to fight the new virus, which is currently spreading around the world in the first pandemic in more than 40 years. Already, H1N1 is hitting the southern hemisphere hard: Argentina has recorded more than 160 deaths from H1N1, second most after the U.S. That's because it's winter in the southern hemisphere, and flu infections tend...
...iPhone. Computers and GPS devices are what we have today instead of Etch A Sketches and Erector Sets and Morse-code telegraph kits. Adults of my parents' generation did not bicycle, roller-skate, or play army; adults today spend whole weekends mountain-biking, snowboarding, and dressing up in camouflage gear to fire paint balls at each other...
...after talking with an A's gear bedecked fan with a banjo over his shoulder going by the name “Super A,” I came around a little bit on the stadium...