Word: snow
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...marchers, more than 200,000 strong, simply defied the government ban, the thousands of police, the scores of military vehicles. As an evening snow shower dusted their faces, the supporters of change in the Soviet Union thronged Moscow's streets to deliver a pungent political message, savoring the act of public assembly in the face of Mikhail Gorbachev's order forbidding rallies, and then tramped peacefully home. For what, then, had the Kremlin assembled an enormous security force -- to protect itself against its own people...
Antarctica has long been viewed as the remotest of continents, buried beneath millions of tons of snow and ice, miles from its nearest neighbor, and "doomed by nature . . . never once to feel the warmth of the sun's rays," in the words of 18th century explorer Captain James Cook. Even scientists studying the way the earth looked hundreds of millions of years ago have tended to ignore this solitary landmass. So it came as a surprise to many researchers last week when a pair of American geologists reported that Antarctica may not always have been so distant. In fact, about...
...failed to lose 2 lbs. a week. Now a nurse in Florida, Russell, 26, sued Salve Regina and won a $44,000 jury verdict. But the school appealed, arguing that her obesity kept Russell, an A student, from completing her clinical requirements. Says Salve Regina's lawyer Steven Snow: "There are certain physical requirements you have to fulfill to be a nurse. I don't know of any blind people who are nurses. Doctors don't write charts in Braille...
Assists: C--John Snow, Kevin McCarthy, John Busse, John Gaensbauer, Ben Smith; H--Mick Cavouti, Chad Prusmack...
...SNOW BALL. Wasp laureate A.R. Gurney (The Cocktail Hour, Love Letters) is a shrewd chronicler of social class customs and conflicts in this Hartford Stage mounting (also to appear at San Diego's Old Globe) of a new play with music and dance adapted from his poignant novel. It shows the seductive folly of revisiting past pleasures -- for a generation that revives its youthful midwinter gala and for a pair of former partners, perfect on the dance floor but not off, reunited in a last bittersweet waltz...