Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...best therapy, though, was the kind Algonans gave one another over coffee at the Chrome, a 24-hour truck stop and favorite local hangout, where the 1979 tornado struck. "In public places like that, you could actually feel the town coming closer together," says MacDonald, who switched from editor to columnist so she could spend more time with her children. "We all suddenly realized how fragile life is, that we better get on with the things we have...
...Subaru station wagon that rode like a dream, was lost in the line of duty in an accident on I-95 South in Fairfield, Conn. In the accident, two Crimson reporters narrowly escaped death when a roll of insulation fell from the back of a red Chevrolet pick-up truck driven by Brian J. Mola of Norwalk, Conn...
...students in the second van, with the help of a truck driver who had stopped at the scene, ascertained that no one had been seriously injured by the crash and helped evacuate the toppled van, Rosenstein said...
...equivalent to shooting a rabid dog, which is, down deep, what Americans feel the war was all about, exterminating a beast with rabies. All those 100,000 men were not megalomaniacs, torturers and murderers. They did not all commit atrocities in Kuwait. They were ordinary people: peasants, truck drivers, students and so on. They had the love of their families, the dignity of their lives and work. They cared as little for politics, or less, than most people in the world. They were, precisely, not Saddam Hussein. Which means, since Saddam was the coalition's one true target...
...theory seems simple enough, but the peculiar epidemiology of AIDS has already raised disturbing issues about how these trials will be conducted. In particular, the populations at greatest risk for the disease -- including drug abusers, prisoners and prostitutes in the U.S., as well as truck drivers and military recruits in some African countries -- are not ideal candidates for a structured scientific trial. Drug abusers and prostitutes may be transients who are not easy to monitor, and inadequate transportation and communications in many African countries will hurt efforts to keep track of volunteers...