Word: visiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After Gloria Williams' 15-year-old son was accused of taking part in the gang rape of a twelve-year-old girl, Los Angeles police paid her a visit. They discovered what deputy city attorney Robert Ferber described as "a museum for gang memorabilia." There were gang graffiti on a bedroom's walls. There were snapshots of Williams posing with teenagers making gang recognition signs. Another photo caught her youngest son, 8, pointing a pistol at the camera...
...with Washington and its NATO partners openly quarreling about whether to negotiate with the Soviets on reductions in short-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the U.S. policy review is almost completed, and Secretary of State James Baker is due to drop the first authoritative hints on a two-day visit to Moscow this week. Shevardnadze was set to receive him eagerly on Wednesday and to usher Baker into a private room with Gorbachev on Thursday...
...touch and breathe on -- Egypt's treasures. Just six people breathing inside a tomb for an hour can raise the humidity by 5 percentage points. And higher humidity provides a hospitable environment for bacteria, algae and fungi that grow on paintings. Sighs Hassan: "Three thousand people a day visit King Tut's tomb. They sweat. I can't prevent that, but it is destroying the tomb...
Regular patrons dote on the academic experience. L'Ecole diner Gilberte Roger, 40, a French citizen who works at the United Nations, on a recent visit found that her carrots were too hard and that they had an unreal "American look." But she enjoyed the rest of her meal so much that she vowed to return because the restaurant "deserved to be called French." The splendid menu at the Culinary School of Kendall College in Evanston, Ill., which serves specialties like roast quail stuffed with duck sausage and hazelnuts, receives raves from Stewart Koppel, a retired businessman, who drives three...
Mainly the children now. We were in Union, N.J. We went up there to visit with the best achievers. And for some reason through this complicated mail system a letter had floated to our attention from a young girl who said, "There are others of us. There are some of us who work the hardest. I'm in a class for slow learners." And so we arranged for the motorcade to stop, and this girl had been positioned out there with her teacher. When we drove away -- just tears streaming down her face, the tears. I read her letter, kind...