Word: twin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chernobyl the concern is even more immediate. There is ever-present danger in the operation of reactor No. 3 too. Despite a government plan to shut down the entire plant, No. 3 was reactivated after officials pleaded that its energy was essential for the coming winter. Like its ruined twin, No. 3 is ; considered fundamentally unsafe by the International Atomic Energy Agency. It may be even more so now: many Russian operators have returned home, leaving a reactor run by Ukrainians who are ill-trained, badly paid and demoralized...
...dramatic tension arises both * from the eccentricity of the performers -- except for the sweetly befuddled Lane, the only human on this planet -- and from the audience's familiarity with so many other movies where guns go off all the time. It has the assured, affectless style of Twin Peaks remade as a sitcom...
...Harvard's season opener against Brown, theteam helped put aside criticism that it couldn'twin physical games. Of course, Brown isn'tClarkson...
Both of his parents were schoolteachers, although his father died when Walcott was only one, and the house in St. Lucia that he, his twin brother and older sister grew up in was filled with books. But the allure of the English language, and of the English poetry recited aloud in his classrooms, came tempered with a sense of exclusion from white British culture, the resentment felt by a subject of an alien, occupying power. In one of his early poems, he pondered his faraway African heritage and asked...
...scene in St. * Louis to transmit color images directly from the debate, among them the cover photo. By 12:30 a.m. the pictures were beamed via satellite to eight printing plants around the country, including our facility in Saratoga Springs, New York, where a fleet of four twin-engine planes was waiting to airlift the magazines to major cities for early Monday morning arrival. In addition, dozens of extra trucks were hired to speed delivery to our wholesale distributors...