Word: royals
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Actually, the new palace will have only 62 rooms, and only 17 are for ((the royal couple's)) private...
...Wine-Dark Sea (Norton; 261 pages; $22) is the 16th installment of what devotees call the Aubrey/Maturin novels. All are set in the early 19th century, during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, and all feature the same two heroes: Jack Aubrey, a blunt, brave captain in the British Royal Navy, and Stephen Maturin, a ship's surgeon, amateur naturalist and sometimes spy for His Majesty's government...
...York Times on the issue of pill dosages and potency. Whoopi Goldberg, Randy Travis, Laura Dern and friends sent a videotape to Washington that included a shot of Mel Gibson being dragged from his home in handcuffs, saying "Gee guys, they were only vitamins!" A BATTLE ROYAL JELLY, proclaimed one headline writer. THE FDA'S WAR OF THE ROSE HIPS, wrote another...
Unlike her British counterpart, who is expected to crank out disposable verses on such occasions as the birth of a member of the royal family, Dove is only required to deliver one public reading of her own work and organize appearances by other writers. Beyond that, her task is to promote poetry in whatever way she chooses...
STOKE-ON-TRENT: People were stunned in this industrial town after a report compiled by two senior doctors acting for the local health authority said many cancer patients had died because their radiation dosages had been miscalculated. In 1982 the North Staffordshire Royal Infirmary bought a computer programmed to determine precise dosages for cancer treatment. But it arrived minus an instruction manual. Senior physicist Margaret Grieveson assumed that a "correction factor" needed to adjust the dosages had not been programmed in. Unfortunately, it had. The result: in the years from 1982 to 1991, 1,045 patients received insufficient radiation. Four...