Word: hatching
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When Serbs fired two anti-tank missiles at a United Nations convoy near the Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa last Monday, Ismail Hassain had just closed the hatch on his armored personnel carrier. The blast inflicted such massive injuries to his head that the Bangladeshi peacekeeper immediately lapsed into a deep coma. Serb forces refused permission for Hassain and four of his wounded U.N. comrades to be evacuated by helicopter, so the soldiers were forced to endure an eight-hour road trip to an American medical hospital in Zagreb. Hassain, who never awoke from his coma, died the next morning...
...Senate, the new Judiciary Committee, under the chairmanship of religious conservative Orrin Hatch, planned a "reappraisal" of abortion rights laws and affirmative action programs...
...Robb (who beat out controversial Iran-contra figure Oliver North) and, apparently, California's Dianne Feinstein. Kansas' Bob Dole, a possible presidential contender, will become the new Senate majority leader. Colleagues in line to head key committees include Strom Thurmond at Armed Services, Jesse Helms at Foreign Relations, Orrin Hatch at Judiciary and Alfonse D'Amato at Banking...
...nesting instinct as well. Working with a U.S.-Mongolian team in the remote Gobi Desert, paleontologist Mark Norell of New York City's American Museum of Natural History found the nearly complete skeleton of a predatory-dinosaur embryo, the first ever discovered, fossilized just as it was about to hatch during the Cretaceous period, more than 70 million years ago. The embryo and its potato-size egg, found in a rocky nest along with at least eight other eggs, are from a kind of oviraptor, an ostrich-size cousin of both tyrannosaurs and velociraptors. And several aspects of the discovery...
NORTH KOREA: Escape Hatch...