Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Honolulu, Hawaii Banned at Hanauma Bay Nature Park, in part because sea turtles were suffering ill effects after eating cigarette butts; $20 fine...
Meanwhile, the former security guard's lawyers engaged in a media blitz to deliver him from the same fate. As the days following the leakage of Jewell's name as a suspect in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing turned to weeks without an arrest, defense counsel Jack Martin led reporters on a hike from the place where Jewell showed officials the bomb to the pay phone from which a warning call was placed a minute and a half later. The brisk walk, presumably faster than the pace Jewell could have sustained through Olympic crowds, took four minutes. Then last week...
...sometimes three books a year, provides a clue about how he is able to manage such a forest-clearing output. In his introduction to the first volume of The Green Mile, he writes, "Most of the second chapter was written during a rain delay at Fenway Park!" Throw in a couple of pitching changes for revisions, and Anne Rice had better start watching her back on the hardcover best-seller list...
High school students in Palisades Park, New Jersey, urgently needed to send their transcripts to colleges, but it was midsummer, and there were no staff members around who knew the new computer system. So the school found Fielder, an area whiz who has tinkered with technology since age nine. With a password and a prayer, he created the necessary templates and streamlined the program for next year. Says Fielder: "It was hard to stay calm under the pressure, but there's a solution to every problem...
Beyond the commercialism and hype of the Centennial Olympics [SPECIAL, Aug. 5] could be found a level of courage in individual athletes by which we can all be inspired. We must increase our awareness of terrorism yet not be paralyzed by its threat. Let Centennial Park become a monument to this endeavor. MARY E. NOCE Liverpool, New York...