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...residents of this besieged town a brief window to escape the horrors of the battle that engulfed them. The old, frail and sick left their basement shelters, some crawling through the collapsed ruins of the bombed houses above them to pick their way carefully over a field of foot-thick debris that littered the streets. Barely a building remained standing. Some had been reduced to deep craters when struck by massive aerial bombs dropped by Israeli jets. Others had lost the top stories, destroyed in the intense artillery barrages and multiple air strikes. The facades of surviving buildings were pockmarked...
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Surrounded by pink flowers and an audience of reporters, First Lady Hillary Clinton sat by the fireplace in the State Dining Room, wrapped in a piped pink sweater, her lips covered in a thick red gloss, her forehead hidden behind a wall of bangs. The date was April 22, 1994, and Mrs. Clinton had convened her first official press conference to address growing concerns over the Whitewater Affair. Clinton skillfully deflected the reporters’ questions, using a breadth of details that reminded every viewer of her lawyerly past. But the next day?...
...full 70 percent of 11-15 year old students did not picture scientists as “normal and attractive men and women.” Asked to draw a picture of a scientist, most children draw Einstein-types, with shocks of white hair, lab coats, and thick glasses. These views haven’t changed much since the mid 20th century. A 1981 study in Public Opinion Quarterly by Georgine Pion and Mark Lipsey echoed the BBC’s article: “In early studies of perception of scientists by high school and college students [dating back...
...scene in front of them was all the motivation they apparently needed. Thick orange flames darted from between cracks in the rubble as rescue workers pulled apart blocks of smashed concrete to look for survivors and recover the dead, choking all the while on the noxious fumes from the explosion and the roiling clouds of dust and smoke...
...called it "Sizzler" and - like most people - we thought the best part of the meal was the "Texas Toast" that came with the steak. The toast was just a slice of white bread grilled for a few seconds and rubbed with butter and garlic, but it was an incredibly thick slice, unlike any you could find in a grocery store. I would bite into the rich, crunchy-then-chewy bread and deeply envy Texans...