Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case conviction hit in Karachi, Pakistan, where four American auditors were shot to death, along with their driver, as they went to work at the local office of Union Texas Petroleum. In morning rush-hour traffic, two gunmen with assault rifles pulled up beside the Americans' station wagon, got out and riddled them with bullets, then drove away. It could have been a replay of the way Kasi killed two people and wounded three as they waited to make the turn into CIA headquarters one morning almost five years ago. A Pakistani group calling itself the Aimal Secret Committee said...
...shows seem to have been created according to very different expectations. Take Channel Umptee-3, which is intended to appeal to children as young as two. The premise is that an ostrich, a snail and a fantasy creature called Holey Moley are operating an underground television station. Old black-and-white film footage is spliced into the show, and static often appears as if a channel were being changed. "This is a show I wish I had as a kid," says Jim George, who created Channel Umptee-3. "I thought, What if there was a show...
...space station were an automobile, you can be sure it would be up on blocks in someone's backyard." ED TROSTER Smyrna, Tenn...
...have always been fascinated with space exploration and have had a tiny urge to work in that field. But after reading your story about the glitches aboard the Mir space station [SPACE, Nov. 3] and seeing its diagrams and its massive, complex structures, I think space exploration is scary. Whatever happened to the classic, simple space vehicle? Is it possible that we are in over our heads with all this complicated technology? TORRE CATALANO Buffalo...
...more sophisticated crowd with whom to rock (that is, if they deign to rock with you), check out Rock'n'Roll Sushi at Gyuhama, 827 Boylston Street (Copley T-station across from Lord and Taylor). While Gyuhama often hosts Harvard's own intro Japanese class field trips during the day, the restaurant turns "cool" at night and hosts those who ditch class...