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...rock sophisticate and Curtis a Jim Morrison figure. But New Order gradually moved to disassociate itself from the death-worship that is the bread and potatoes of second-generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black music fanatics rushing to cry copycat, rather it was stripped-down, mechanized, hermetic music...
Following the Mass over loudspeakers, hundreds of thousands of people lined the flower-strewn streets. Some balanced precariously on bridge railings in hope of catching just a glimpse of the waving Pontiff as he sped by in his Popemobile. If John Paul could not visit the Poznan memorial, a crowd of several hundred people managed to avoid police blockades and rally by the twin crosses. A lonely yellow-and-white papal banner was left behind in the empty torch of an eternal flame that was extinguished soon after the military crackdown in December...
Other CDC experts work with Immigration and Naturalization Service officials to prevent exotic diseases from entering the country. Laboratory Director Joseph McCormick, who studied Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, sped to the Atlanta airport in a four-wheel-drive vehicle during a snowstorm last January to pick up a mysteriously ailing passenger from Nigeria. The man was placed in an isolation room until it was certain he was not suffering from one of the deadly viruses...
...Ditching is imminent." Alerted Coast Guard cutters sped toward the scene. Then, responding to the pilot's frantic efforts, the rear engine sputtered alive again. The pilot was able to return the crippled aircraft safely to an emergency landing in Miami. Said Passenger Janet Jacobs, of Hollywood, Fla.: "We are the luckiest people alive...
With two down in the top of the seventh and Vierra and Bauer at the corners, Bauer sped towards second base. Unprepared for the move, Cadet catcher Terry Douglas threw down to second base. While Bauer got himself involved in a rundown. Rivera brought the insurance run home from third Base umpire Tony Bartolino ruled Bauer out of the basepath, and the Cadets protested that the third out had come before Rivera crossed the plate. Three minutes after the end of the inning, the umpires ruled that the run hadn't scored after all. But Crimson Cadet Alex Nahigian protested...