Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...procreate with a woman whom he now disagrees with on nearly everything. "I don't want my kids being brought up by her," Steven says. "I don't want them to have her input." Just knowing that Maureen could one day turn their embryos into children has taken its toll on Steven. "Even dating is difficult," he says. He usually waits until the third or fourth date, he says, before explaining, "I am divorced, but I have these frozen embryos hanging around...
...with TV after her deal is up. In order to work simultaneously in TV and film, she has sometimes had to put in seven-day weeks. "I need to have a life," she says. "I don't have one right now." The long hours seem to have taken a toll on her personal life. She says she's in the process of getting a divorce from her husband Jeff Colt, who is also an actor, though so far a less successful one. Campbell's favorite book is the inspirational philosophical text The Prophet. "There's one passage about relationships...
Over Nob Hill and the Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages, the bells began to toll. In Caracas, Venezuela, a lone Marine sergeant strode across the lawn of the U.S. embassy while a soft rain fell, saluted the flag, then lowered it to half-mast. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...
...grim coincidence, last week was officially Hazardous Weather Awareness Week in Florida. The storms, spawned by El Nino, that raked across the state generated as many as 10 twisters, probably the worst pack of tornadoes ever to hit Florida at one time. Last week's toll is still being calculated, but so far, 39 people are known killed, 250 injured and two missing. Some 1,700 apartments, pre-fab houses and single-family homes were damaged or destroyed. Total damage estimates exceed $65 million. Dozens of Florida counties have been declared disaster areas; President Clinton, touring some of the worst...
...Tower Records take over Harvard Square, and the Gap takes over the world, the unique and the independent grow increasingly difficult to track down. Even among bookstores, which were once thriving reminders of individuality and art, the Barnes and Noble monolith (a.k.a. the Harvard Coop) has taken its toll. Its near-monopoly on textbooks leaves little room for the smaller shop. Yet there are still pockets of bookish bohemia dotting the Boston-Cambridge landscape...