Word: station
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Adding a patina of covert authenticity, the bulk of the conference took place at Teufelsberg, a once secret complex built on an artificial mountain in a forest near the outskirts of West Berlin. Surmounted by the eerie globes of eavesdropping radio antennas, Teufelsberg was a huge cold war spy station. (These days it's in the hands of local developers, who are hoping to build a spy-themed hotel on the site...
...Directions: Red line to Park Street, change to the Green Line Lechmere line to North Station. Follow the crowds and you're there...
...crashed on television!" she says. "I didn't want to be an astronaut any more...[Before the explosion,] we would have to draw pictures of what life would be like on a space station--we stopped doing that...
There are colorful stories about starving undergraduates queuing up in lines that extend from the swiping station in the dining hall to the Quincy House gates on Plympton Street. Musicians lugged their cellos to practice rooms hoping to prepare for auditions, only to find ridiculous and limiting hours of service. Quad residents trekked through wind and rain, thanks to Hurricane Floyd, because of the disengaged Harvard shuttle service. Athletes faced a particularly difficult task--practicing across the river, eating in Dunster and living in the Quad, all without shuttle service. Students who took advantage of temporary housing before Sept...
...another commercial example of this problem aired on a radio station that I was listening to over the summer. The ad, for efortress.com, began with audio of someone--South Asian, to judge by the intentionally distorted accent--leading a session of yoga. Then the efortress.com pitch line: Basically, they said, some things have to be slow. Your Internet service provider doesn...