Word: saws
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mission, Alaska. Now he was ready to try again. He knew from hard experience that no live virus had survived under the permafrost. But Taubenberger's paper convinced him that technology had advanced to the point where even a dead virus could be of immense value. The moment he saw the Science paper, he told himself, "There. This...
Just being out here qualifies, if you ask Los Angeles police captain Ron Bergmann, who says more kids than ever are racing. The night of that November crash, he says, police were headed north on San Fernando Road when they saw racers, four abreast, bearing down on them at about warp 6. A 19-year-old Pasadena boy in an '89 Mustang convertible spun around and fled, but his car found a tree...
...AIDS sticker when he dropped to 140 lbs. after breaking his jaw making City Heat. He became addicted to painkillers, went off them cold turkey--and fell into a coma. The medics thought he was dying. "I saw that famous light. And you know, I didn't want to come back. Then someone said, 'If you die, they'll say you died of AIDS.' And I came back...
...second of the mighty Germans, who had collected a gold, a silver and a bronze in the previous three Olympics. Zipping down the track in their lemon yellow suits, the Americans (who recorded with their two teammates a theme song titled Arctic Evil Knievels) pumped their fists as they saw their 0-for-27 Olympic-medal streak...
Neutral, perhaps, but by no means dispassionate, as one saw, even in distant Karuizawa, a chic summer resort that found itself the host for curling competitions. Not far from the Pension England House Windsor, the town held its very own opening ceremonies, with its own parade of athletes, its own concert of bagpipers and Japanese drums. As the competition got under way, the Kazakoshi Park Arena--not unlike a high school gym--was filled with Japanese primary schoolchildren, old ladies blowing Piccolo Mini Cheer Horns and a crowd of Canadians crying, "Come on, button boy. Stop, baby, stop." Here...