Word: united
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...night a young woman hung herself in the max-unit, many others cried...She was a frightened and confused person who needed help. Instead she was locked in a room, the door shut. Put in seclusion. She was a new mother...The officers couldn't or didn't save her. They tried to run things as if nothing happened that night. Something had--a little piece of everyone died with the realization of how fragile reality is, how cruel it is to lock human beings up as if they were animals." So wrote a woman in prison in the book...
When the officer arrived, he called of immediate backup. Every on-duty unit in the city responded. When they arrived, they found the officer slightly injured...
Near the rugged border with Montenegro and Albania, French journalists managed to reach a unit in the Rugova valley west of the cleansed town of Pec. They said the rebels were organized and disciplined and appeared to be holding their own against the Serbs in sporadic fighting. In a bold move last Tuesday, rebels from this group phoned NATO and requested that planes take out a specific bridge. Twenty-four hours later, the K.L.A. commander claimed, it was gone. NATO has so far stopped short of shipping arms to the K.L.A. Administration sources say they fear such a move would...
...thoughts were more modest than some memeticists might wish. For me the original mission was negative. The word was introduced at the end of a book that otherwise must have seemed entirely devoted to extolling the "selfish" gene as the be-all and end-all of evolution, the fundamental unit of selection. There was a risk that my readers would misunderstand the message as being necessarily about DNA molecules. On the contrary, DNA was incidental. The real unit of natural selection is any kind of replicator, any unit of which copies are made, with occasional errors, and with some influence...
...after the graduation of Jon Hess, Jesse Hubbard and Chris Massey--an attack unit that combined for 618 points and 26 Ivy League Player of the Week awards--last June, things have been different in New Jersey. The Tigers (4-3, 3-0 Ivy) began their quest with three losses and have a 1-2 record at Class of 1952 Stadium...