Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...after Hutu extremists assaulted a group of big-game trackers who had asked to be taken back to their homes in Rwanda's celebrated mountain gorilla reserve. The violence escalated when Zairian gangs looted aid supplies from an air base near Goma. "We seem to be operating in a virtual state of war," said a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees...
...lendie (Lena M. Diethelm): Kathleen was my friend. She wasn't a saint, she was a scientist ... Watching her online sometimes was like watching a kid learning to ride a bike. She'd keep trying, she'd keep falling down, she'd scrape her virtual knees, brush them off and get right back on for the ride...
...tigereye: kj was fully aware of the transitory nature of her virtual relationships, and quite skeptical at first of the interest shown in her, but she accepted it for what it was. Knowing that she would be remembered eventually became very meaningful to her, even as irony...
...Thursday. They'll also discuss "credible reports" cited today by U.S. officials at the Guantanamo Naval base that Cuba has released minimum security prisoners, allowing them to join the boat people on rafts headed for Florida. Meanwhile, the influx of Cubans headed for Florida began climbing after a virtual halt during weekend storms. Hundreds of people in home-made rafts set off from beaches near Havana Monday night, and by mid-afternoon the U.S. Coast Guard reported intercepting 731 people at sea. Also today, Honduras announced it would accept 5,000 Cubans blocked from entering the United States, easing some...
...future space missions. In fact, NASA wants to launch a robot explorer toward Mars as early as 1996. And a private company working with Carnegie Mellon scientists hopes to send a Dante-like robot to the moon in 1997. The purely commercial purpose: to gather images for a gamelike, virtual-reality tour across the lunar surface...