Word: townes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Autumn hasn't always turned me into such a monster. In fact, I used to fancy myself more of a springtime kind of guy. Back in elementary school, spring meant so much more to us suburban kids. Little League came back into town. Recess was outdoors once againoinstead of inside the rotting gym. The Yankees were playing in the Bronx again. By the time we were in high school, the hormones were raging and the girls were always breaking out their summertime wardrobes just a little too early. And summer vacation was just around the corner. Yeah, I could...
...have heard more than enough about the Littleton tragedy. Unfortunately, we have not heard nearly enough of the truth. The great lie about Littleton is that two satanic students walked into their small-town high school, sought out and killed religious students. For instance, the media portrayal of the event highlighted the killing of a girl supposedly killed for saying she believed in God, an event chronicled by her mother in a recent bestseller. After the authenticity of the incident was challenged, both by eyewitnesses and the formal investigation, the media took no responsibility for correcting their error...
Harvard goes cross-town tomorrow to face Northeastern (5-8, 4-1 America East). The Huskies swept a league weekend, beating Hofstra 2-1 in overtime on Friday and romping over Drexel 6-1 on Sunday. They are the defending conference champions...
Tokaimura is a town that should be ready for nuclear accidents. It is home to 15 nuclear power facilities and has had three other nuclear accidents in the past four years. Yet three fire fighters who answered an emergency call at the plant misunderstood the reason. They thought someone was having an epileptic seizure and so didn't wear protective clothing. The Tokaimura town office didn't find out about the accident for almost an hour...
...commerce homestead on a corner of Amazon real estate called zShops. But much more important, Amazon's main search tool--that little text box in the upper-left-hand corner of the home page--has started pointing customers toward sites other than its own. "Think of a small-town merchant who suggests you might try someone else down the street," says Bezos, with his trademark earsplitting laugh...