Word: lows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...warning that tells you everything and nothing. Nevertheless, extra guards were posted at the front and back of the building, and nervous security officers convinced their ambassador, Prudence Bushnell, to fire off a letter to Albright warning that the embassy was vulnerable to car bombs. But Nairobi's remained low on the priority list of embassies due for major security upgrades...
...hang on for years, even after a worker has left a building. According to Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, repeated exposure to toxins given off by molds and bacteria may hypersensitize people to the point that they react to even low levels of these toxins. It may also weaken their tolerance to everyday chemicals in car exhaust, perfumes, cleaning agents and some foods and drugs...
...contain the most salacious and lewd rumors gleaned from the most untrustworthy and reprehensible scum on earth. Their original function was to provide amusing bedtime reading for J. Edgar Hoover (which is why he kept them in the bureau). Today they enable the FBI to keep U.S. crime statistics low by threatening to give the media the raw files of anyone even thinking about going...
...JIMMY SMITS FAREWELL (ABC) NYPD Blue dispatched Detective Bobby Simone in four intensely moving episodes. Smits' low-key virility and Dennis Franz's emotionalism played perfectly in the tragic setting, and if you have to die, Kim Delaney is the woman--tender, beautiful--to have at your side...
...COLD WAR (CNN) Any commercial network that aired a 24-part documentary on the cold war, no matter how dull, would deserve praise, but cnn created dramatic TV. Mixing rare footage and interviews with figures high and low, the series deftly told its grave story while maintaining scholarly integrity...