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Texas A&M administrators are unabashed about their willingness to shower lucre on a few desirable luminaries. "We're interested in attracting key people of high quality for our faculty," says Pieter Groot, the university's assistant vice president for academic budgets. "In order to get these professors, we have to go to higher salaries...
...ones that stayed alive got wet towels and wrapped them around their face or got in a shower and put wet blankets over them, "said Charlie Achieved an inmate hospitalized for smoke inhalation. "The ones that didn't died...
...water boiler down the hall. In Russia, a local car, which we are forbidden to enter, hitches onto out tail. Other than that secret compartment, we may stroll the length of the train, peeping into second-class berths (fancy slipcovers) and first (two beds, an armchair, a hose shower, and a private toilet). Even in third class, however, there is toilet paper, a genuine luxury...
...refugees fleeing into Thailand tell the same story. Attacks in remote mountain jungles of Indochina have, according to a State Department estimate, killed at least 7,000 people. Typically, a plane sweeps in low over an isolated village, spraying a yellowish cloud or dropping bombs that burst in a shower of sticky beads. The rain, says the survivor of an April attack, feels "wet like rain and hot like chilies." The lethal ingredient of yellow rain is a poorly understood class of mycotoxins, or fungal poisons, known as trichothecenes, that apparently kill by rupturing blood vessels and inhibiting the blood...
...right in the middle of the shower with shampoo all over my head when the water just went off." said Elizabeth F. Bennett...