Word: walks
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...round and went into a coma for two months. When she awoke, she could not speak and had lost control of the right side of her body. During the weeks of painful recuperation, Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent a piece of shrapnel into her right thigh, Poturak realized that Sarajevo has become a place where wishes as simple as hers are extravagant. Her sentiments...
...pornography is different on the computer networks. You can obtain it in the privacy of your home--without having to walk into a seedy bookstore or movie house. You can download only those things that turn you on, rather than buy an entire magazine or video. You can explore different aspects of your sexuality without exposing yourself to communicable diseases or public ridicule. (Unless, of course, someone gets hold of the computer files tracking your online activities, as happened earlier this year to a couple dozen crimson-faced Harvard students...
...threat of death in its oxygen tanks. They exploded on April 13, imperiling both the mission and the lives of astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert. Commander Lovell, history's greatest traveler with almost 7 million miles on his Gemini and Apollo odometers, had dreamed of walking on the moon. Now he and his companions would be lucky to walk again on the earth. In an anxious four days, they would learn how to pilot a wounded, runaway craft; they would assemble an air purifier using homely artifacts found in any space module; and they would hope against...
...ever curious about gaining a different perspective on your experience during your first year at Harvard, take a break from your hectic schedule--you can always make time--and go for a walk up to 29 Garden...
...bring extensive snow gear. Gloves, hats with ear flaps, duck boots, earmuffs, snow-shoes, scarves, parkas--the whole works. When it stops raining, it snows here. A lot. If you don't know how to walk on ice, you will learn...