Word: noon
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...gauntlet to prosecutors Sunday after CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape in which Kevorkian commits the act himself. "Either they go," he said, "or I go." Kevorkian has been tried and acquitted three times on assisted suicide charges; his lawyer says he now wants to force a "high noon" confrontation with the police. If convicted, the self-styled Dr. Death says he will starve himself to death in jail...
...towns like the once thriving community of Posoltega, nestled on rich soil beneath the Casitas Volcano in Nicaragua's mountainous northwest, Mitch was the apocalypse. Close to noon on Oct. 30, after the hurricane had dumped three days of rain into Casitas's crater, the mountainside burst with what villagers described as the angry roar of a jetliner. It hurled mud, water and rock onto Posoltega's rooftops, "a terrible, towering wall that just fell out of the clouds," says Santo Diaz, 24. Diaz gathered his elderly father, mother, sister and two brothers to escape--but the avalanche claimed them...
With the aid of Alcoholics Anonymous, FM does not have to stand for Frozen Margarita any longer. AA meets in Cambridge seven nights a week at various locations and furthermore, provides hotline support 9am-9pm Monday through Friday and noon to 9pm weekends. We're confident that the fellowship that AA affords will inspire FM to achieve and maintain sobriety. Call 426-9444 to find out times and locations of upcoming meetings...
...know me. You know me from the picture on the ID card you picked up off the ground a week ago at the end of Stats 100 class. You know me from using my card at the Greenhouse within 10 minutes after class ended, a little after noon, when better food could have been had for free anywhere else. That night you used my card to order a pizza, and then cleaned out the rest of my Board Plus on another noontime Greenhouse purchase the next...
...challenging work in the bush: A Break Away!, 1891, his rendering of young jackeroos (Australian for cowboys) galloping furiously to head off a stampeding mob of sheep, remains a national icon a century later. Streeton painted not wilderness but settled pastoral land, framed by vast space. In The Purple Noon's Transparent Might, 1896 (the title is from Shelley: culturally, England still bore strongly on these highly nationalist artists), the high-keyed light and crisp, decisive brushwork create a broad, deep and coherent space brimming with heat...