Word: trainings
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...lament over the decline of the railways, Arlo Guthrie in 1972 sang of the train the City of New Orleans passing "trains that have no name" and "the graveyards of the rusted automobile" while onboard the "magic carpet made of steel" sat "mothers with their babes asleep...rockin' to the gentle beat and the rhythm of the rails is all they feel." The City of New Orleans that left Chicago three minutes behind schedule last Monday night promised prouder vistas as it coursed along the Mississippi: historic Cairo, the blues from Beale Street in Memphis and, as finale...
Just moments before, Sheena Dowe, 22, had left her baby son Amause with a friend in the dining car and taken the friend's toddler to the toilet in the sleeper. When the crash rocked the train, Dowe immediately pushed her friend's son out of the bathroom and screamed at him to run back to his mother. Then the door slammed shut, trapping her within. Meanwhile, as baggage flew and bodies tumbled, June Bonnin, 47, was trying to save her wards. The co-proprietor of an elegant bed-and-breakfast in Nesbit, Miss., was with her daughter Ashley...
...with numerous traffic violations, including three speeding tickets received within a year. His license was supposed to have been suspended, but Stokes completed a safety class and won probation. Meanwhile, investigators were looking into evidence that Stokes may have dodged the crossing gates to avoid waiting for the oncoming train. Stokes insists the lights at the crossing did not flash...
...easy to see why. Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism. He offered instead to solve the Soviet Union's chronic crop failures through a process he called vernalization, by which he would "train" spring wheat to be winter wheat and thus increase the number of annual harvests. Lysenko believed all living organisms passed on to succeeding generations characteristics acquired in their lifetime. This untested theory was at odds with what Lysenko scathingly called "alien bourgeois" genetics, but Soviet scientists who dared disagree risked being...
...institute will use the money to fund a three-year program devoted to basic research, vaccine development and treatments to block mother-to-infant transmission of HIV, he virus that causes AIDS. The money will also fund a program to train AIDS researchers from southern Africa, which has been hit especially hard by AIDS, according to an Oak Institute press release...