Word: offers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those of us who don't yet have too many wedding anniversaries or funerals to commemorate the demarcations of our own personal histories, holidays offer a rare opportunity for adding a dramatic subtext to the calendar. At Halloween, for example, we sneak about, looking up at the stars, comparing preteen trick or treating expeditions with our current pranks...
...motley group of more than 12,000 runners will gather in Hopkinton late in the morning on April 20. This, the Athlete's Village (known in non-marathon times as the Hopkinton High School), will offer food, drink and rest areas to the runners. Don't attempt to crash the party, though--it's participants only in the Village...
...that famous non-competitive pre-med spirit, I offer these test-day suggestions gleaned from MCAT veterans...
...trainload of napalm is riding the rails in limbo somewhere in the Texas-Oklahoma area today, after an Indiana company, under fierce bi-partisan bipartisan political pressure, withdrew its offer to recycle 23 million gallons of the incendiary substance. The Navy vowed to proceed with its plan to recycle the napalm stored at a California base, but there was no word on the immediate fate of the Indiana-bound shipment. Sure, this is like protesting a gasoline tanker, but pressure arising from the Vietnam-era associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal...
...terror. But in his final years, Mao seems to have welcomed the association of his own name with these distant Qin precursors. The Qin, after all, had established a united state from a universe in chaos. They represented, like Mao, not the best that China had to offer, but something ruthless yet canny, with the power briefly to impose a single will on the scattered emotions of the errant multitude. It is on that grimly structured foundation that Mao's successors have been able to build, even as they struggle, with obvious nervousness, to contain the social pressures that their...