Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Each Thanksgiving, students face one last hurdle before they can get from Cambridge to their homes--the last-minute rush to the airport...
...rush? "He believes his brother is mentally ill," says TIME's San Francisco Bureau chief Dave Jackson, "and the government is pushing the death penalty." Indeed, as jury selection reaches the halfway stage, it looks as if a large majority of the potential jurors favor capital punishment for Kaczynski if convicted. Adds Jackson: "It's certainly a poignant situation David is in. He turned his brother in, now he's faced with the possibility that his words will lead to his brother's execution...
...crisis, Clinton has been resolute in dealing with it. He kept his public comments pointed but brief while lining up unanimous support for the Security Council resolution condemning Iraq, then turned to the harder task of enlisting allied support for military action. The President has never been one to rush into major military engagements. He prefers to wait until opportunities present themselves. In Bosnia he agonized and delayed for years until the warring sides were exhausted, then bombed the Serbs to the peace table. But he knows there's no time for that now. As he draws nearer...
...aftershock of the CIA-case conviction hit in Karachi, Pakistan, where four American auditors were shot to death, along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself...
...reason. More properly known as high-density lipoprotein (HDL), it can prevent the damage done by its evil twin, low-density lipoprotein (LDL). The latter clogs blood vessels by combining with oxygen to form a substance that sets off alarms in the immune system. White blood cells rush to attack it, and the whole mess forms into sticky globs called plaques that cling to vessel walls like mineral deposits in a water pipe. When these deposits break off and blood clots around them, the flow can shut off entirely, leading to heart attack or stroke...