Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flammable oil slick. Said Miami Fire Lieut. Luis Fernandez: "We've had to pull the airboats out of the water. It's not like the ocean; there's no water circulating, so there's no way for the fuel to dissipate. What we're having to do is land on high ground and then have our rescuers slush through four feet of water." With that kind of contact come the natural hazards of the swamp: alligators and snakes...
Heavy weather, of course, has long been a TV passion. Nothing gets a network newsman's juices flowing like a good hurricane, with its made-to-order suspense ("the eye of the storm is expected to hit land at 9 p.m....") and the opportunity for daredevil theatrics (Dan Rather clinging to a pole in Panama City, Florida, as Hurricane Opal hits). Local weathercasters in the nervous Northeast treat every approaching snowstorm as if it were the coming Armageddon...
...long ago in Cambodia, Afghanistan, and more recently in Bosnia and Croatia. "This is a failure of U.S. leadership but it will not stop the international effort to ban these weapons," said Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, who had lobbied Clinton on behalf of the ban. An international ban on land mines was rejected at a conference in Geneva earlier this month. Thompson says the refusal by the United States to unilaterally ban anti-personnel mines will make it more difficult to achieve a worldwide agreement. "For the United States to have any moral standing on the issue, it would have...
Class is rarely openly discussed, but has a profound effect on academics, extracurriculars and social life. For some, Harvard is the great equalizer. For others, it's a fairy-tale land that distorts the inequalities of American society...
...recalls, his father confronted him, saying "You can't continue to play the middle ground. Either you're going to choose to follow and obey him or reject him." Feeling resentful, Franklin left shortly afterward to assist a Graham friend with a tour of the Holy Land. But several days later, in a hotel room in Jerusalem, he reread what might be called the New Testament's great amnesty clause, Romans 8: 1: "There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Then, as Franklin writes, "I put my cigarette out and got down...