Word: walke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand why I laud it so. Perhaps it's time for you to abandon the barren cubbies of Lamont, the dingy carpet of Hilles and the cages of the Widener stacks for a study environment worthy of a Harvard student's tastes. It's worth the walk, and it may very well alter your choice of graduate schools...
...travel to America's finest country clubs and a courtroom in Eugene, Oregon. Casey Martin is a young professional golfer on the Nike Tour, the professional Golf Association's (PGA) equivalent of the minor leagues. Martin also has a rare circulatory disorder that makes it difficult for him to walk long distances. Now, that presents a problem, since tournament golf courses usually top 7,000 yards. Martin can play a round of golf, however, if he rides in a golf cart, a practice strictly prohibited by the PGA. Martin decided that the PGA needed to show a little more compassion...
...walk from the Kenmore T station to Fenway on game day offers an experience unfamiliar to many sports fans today. Too many modern ballparks sit dismembered from the communities which support them, connected to their cities by thin ribbons of asphalt. Missing from these suburban landscapes is the mix of eclectic shops, restaurants, scalpers and bums that makes the walk to Fenway worth taking...
MOSCOW: On Mir, failure is something of a given. But you know it?s getting serious when Mission Control won?t let you hear what?s going on up there. After a planned space walk was canceled Tuesday because the cosmonauts were unable to open the hatch, officials on the ground turned off the audio system that lets reporters listen in on the radio traffic. ?You?re not supposed to listen to that,? snapped Mission Control Chief Vladimir Solovyov. ?You will get the news from...
...Especially when the news is pretty embarrassing: Not even Nikolai Budarin, the strongest cosmonaut of the current crop, could open that darn hatch -- and he broke three wrenches trying. ?I am somewhat distressed that we have failed to open the hatch,? Solovyov conceded. That?s an understatement. The space walk now has to wait until a new stock of wrenches is sent up in the next cargo ship -- and Mission Control has to wait to see if the world noticed...