Word: stream
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...mail messages from "Jeopardy!" viewers, commenting on her intelligence and beauty, flood her inbox. She also said she's received a steady stream of congratulatory cans over the past few days...
SARAJEVO, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA: Ethnic cleansing is taking a new form in the Balkans as the stream of Serbs leaving Sarajevo threatened today to become a torrent. Bosnian Serb authorities are violating the spirit of the Dayton peace accords, advising and in some cases coercing the city's 50,000 ethnic Serbs to leave Sarajevo before the Croat-Muslim federation takes over the administration of the Vogosca district of Sarajevo on Friday. Heavy snow is still hampering the efforts of the city's Serbs to leave, but a steady flow of vehicles is leaving the city, and many families are packing...
Other samples provide dramatic snapshots of prehistoric behavior: mites hitchhiking on the back of sweat bees; a leaf beetle spitting out a stream of noxious bubbles in self-defense; spiders caught in the act of mating; a praying mantis attacked by ants; a spider finishing off a millipede...
...Cocteau Twins built their reputation on being a gothic-ambient, primarily electronic band. Their incomprehensible but passionate vocals struck a chord in the hearts of an unexpectedly large contingent of despairing Britons. Hence the cries of "Sellout!" when the group switched from the obscure 4AD to main-stream Capitol Records, and the winces of fans when 1993's lovely and melodic Four-Calendar Cafe attracted comparisons to the Sundays and the Cranberries. The Cocteau Twins' two latest EPs, released within weeks of each other, take the Twins' unique, subtly emotive sound in a new direction altogether, with uneven results...
...Slamon says he made the decision to pay for the transplant after discovering that Christy by then had already undergone the initial marrow harvest. "We should not have taken her halfway into the stream without being prepared to take her all the way across," he says. He insists that the decision was his alone, and not the result of any coercion from Health...