Word: poppings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hauls them to new sites. There volunteers from local churches and schools join with families that have been aided in the past to install wiring, put up paneling and dig septic tanks. Over the past six years MadCAAP has recycled old houses for 70 families in and around Canton (pop. 11,500), a courthouse-squared town 20 miles north of Jackson. MadCAAP's aim, according to its unflappable founder and director, Sister Grace Mary McGuire, 57, is to "try and break the cycle of poverty by helping one family at a time...
...Salinas Valley town of Hollister (pop. 11,500) experiences temblors so frequently that some of the townspeople proudly call it the Earthquake Capital of the World. At 5:04 p.m., 19-year-old Albert Valles was working out in a gym when he felt the building begin to shake. He ran into the street as the facade gave way, burying his Jeep under an avalanche of bricks. "I would have been finished," Valles marveled. No one was injured. Yet in nearby Watsonville (pop. 23,550), the Bake-Rite Bakery caved in, fatally smashing a passerby...
...sensation Tuesday night: the tidy coherence and instant packaging that normally make television such a reassuring national touchstone were replaced by the unusual experience of watching as the medium was forced to grope in the dark. "When you're used to being able to flick switches and have things pop up on satellites, it's frustrating and even terrifying to realize that you have no way of finding out the dimensions of a disaster," says Robert Murphy, ABC's vice president of news coverage. "You feel you've lost control of the story...
...Byrne said his new albums are not a total departure from his previous work because rock, pop and rhythm and blues have exposed people to a "healthy dose" of African tradition--which has a great influence on Latin American music...
Sure, there were a lot of good moments. It's funny, but whenever I think about the days when baseball was THE SPORT, so many details pop up. Like the smell of Glovolium, this magical oily-like substance that I used to rub on my Carlton Fisk catcher's mitt and then on my Jim LeFevebre (whoever he was) infielder's glove every day in February. I really don't know what the Glovolium did to my gloves; I just thought every major leaguer...