Word: station
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Christmas Day, 70 Africans sought -- and got -- police escorts to the Nanjing train station so they could file complaints with their respective embassies in Beijing. As they marched through the streets, the Africans rallied foreign students from campuses of other universities along the way. At the station, riot troops herded roughly 150 foreign students, including four Americans, onto buses and confined them in a hotel 50 miles away. At week's end they were being held incommunicado while diplomats negotiated with Beijing officials for their release. Meantime, some demonstrators demanded that provincial-government leaders "punish the ruffians to promote...
...pleasant. Hybrids abound, and modesty is a virtue. Tod Williams and Billie Tsien's Long Island pool house, for example, combines industrial materials and delicate details. The Clayton County (Ga.) Library delivers a high concept with a relatively low budget. The finest work, from Washington's restored Union Station to the sleek Ford Probe, accommodates both pizazz and gravitas...
Occasionally, a star of hope radiates through all this gloom. Recently he was waiting for a train at Penn Station, when a well-dressed man asked him if he was "the glove guy." Says Greenberg: "He said that I had given him a pair of gloves on the Bowery five years previously and that now he was married with two children, and he wanted to give me $20 to buy more gloves. I told him the same as I tell others who want to write me a check: no thank you. You spend the money on gloves, and you give...
...cost of protecting developed coastal areas could reach $111 billion. Southern Louisiana, which is losing land to the Gulf of Mexico at the alarming rate of one acre every 16 minutes, has already drawn up an ambitious mix of programs. In the biggest project, a $24 million pumping station would divert millions of gallons of silt-rich Mississippi River water onto the coastline to help stop saltwater intrusion and to supply sediment that will build up the eroding land. At least one parish is considering plans for a backstop dike to give residents time to escape should the sea finally...
Sputtering burning fuel, a large chunk of the fuselage struck a hill outside Lockerbie, then careened into a gas station and two rows of houses, gouging a 20-ft.-wide crater in a roadway. In the center of town, an aircraft engine lay embedded in the street. Sixty bodies were later recovered from a nearby golf course and taken to the town hall, which had been turned into a makeshift mortuary. One body was found on a back porch, another entangled in the branches of a tree. Three miles away, the plane's blue-and-white cockpit, containing the bodies...