Word: stationed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather than kill it, tried to tackle the 6-ft. 3-in., 240-lb. Drega. But the gunman shook him off as they struggled on the hood of a car, then shot him several times. Drega got back into the cruiser and sat parked in front of the police station for several minutes. The police officers were all up at the supermarket, responding to the first shootings. Next on Drega's hit list was another Columbia selectman, Kenneth Parkhurst; Drega kicked down the door to Parkhurst's house and found nobody home. He returned to his own home...
...rest of the world held its breath yesterday as the space station temporarily lost the use of its primary and backup oxygen generators. Mir's crew swiftly fixed the problem, but Russian ground staff went home for the night without telling the Americans about it, touching off a brief panic at NASA early this morning...
...part, Marvyn Kornberg, the attorney for Officer Volpe, simply says Louima was lying, not about his injuries but about how and where they occurred. "What happened to [Louima] was not a result of anything that took place in the station house," he declared, without elaboration. And he disputed any allegation of racial bias. "They don't know what they're talking about--Volpe's girlfriend is black...
...British rock band Radiohead's futuristic new album OK Computer (Capitol) is a bit like the troubled Russian space station Mir--it's a cool place to visit, but if you stay too long, things could start breaking down. The album's sound is refreshingly unique: long, meandering, melodic passages that take their own sweet time to work themselves out; jangling, spacey guitar work--all of it threaded together by singer Thom Yorke's yearning tenor, hitting and holding notes with almost operatic emotion. The lyrics display an X-Files-ish romanticism: one song, Subterranean Homesick Alien, is about...
Just for a moment the world held its breath, as Mir lost the use of both its primary and backup oxygen generators - in what might have proved a devastating malfunction for the disabled space station. Communications with Mir went down just as the crew reported the failure...