Word: pasadena
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PASADENA DOO DAH PARADE. It all started as a spoof of the Rose Parade, but this zany California happening has taken on a life of its own. This year look for 125 offbeat groups, including the Synchronized Briefcase Drill Team and Snotty Scotty and the Hankies. Nov. 26; noon...
When antiwar activists look at an inverted Y inside a circle, they see a symbol for peace. But some school officials in Pasadena, Texas, detect something satanic: an upside-down broken cross that signifies the defeat of Christianity. This week they will vote on a new student dress code that would allow principals to outlaw the sign...
...this point the medical paths of these men, with identical symptoms but different doctors, may diverge radically. One man lives in Beverly Hills, and the chances that he will have coronary-bypass surgery are nearly twice as high as they are for the other man, who lives in Pasadena, just 20 miles away. The Pasadena patient is more likely to be treated with drugs and a modified diet...
Because of population and demographic shifts, long-established mainline churches often find themselves struggling along in unpromising locations. On a typical Sunday in downtown Pasadena, Calif., for example, only 80 mostly elderly worshipers attended services at the First Congregational Church, a cavernous old citadel built to hold a thousand people. The sparsely populated pews contrast dramatically with the overflow crowds that regularly jam the ultramodern Church of the Nazarene, situated on the fast-growing outskirts of town...
...there any way to avoid collisions with asteroids and comets? Perhaps. A nuclear warhead aimed right at a small asteroid could vaporize it, says Alan Harris, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. But the warhead might also simply break the rock into pieces that would hit the earth anyway. A better plan, proposed by concerned scientists in the early 1980s, would be to use explosives to deflect an asteroid rather than destroy it. Properly positioned, a bomb could nudge a threatening object enough to make it miss the planet. The catch, says Harris, is that there...