Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...WIRE) PROVIDENCE, R.I.--The Brown football team will look to improve upon its stellar 1997 season and to make a run at winning its first Ivy League title since...
...WIRE) NEW HAVEN, Conn.-- On the final day of last year's women's field hockey season, the seniors took down the practice field Yale flag, bringing a close to the season and their Yale careers. Earlier this week, that same flag was presented to present seniors Lindsay Hobbs and Abby Alt, and with it the leadership of the team. They hoisted the flag at the beginning of Thursday's practice...
More nerve-racking than mastering what goes on inside the shuttle, though, is mastering what could go on outside. One of the most hair-raising parts of Glenn's training involves emergency escape procedures. Crew members on shuttles must be prepared to ride slide-wire baskets down from the launch pad if a fully fueled shuttle threatens to blow; shimmy down an escape pole and parachute away from the ship in the event of a postlaunch emergency below an altitude of 20,000 ft.; and rappel down ropes from the hatch if the spacecraft makes an emergency landing on tarmac...
...would take some of the drama and steam out of the Aug. 17 appearance. It would affect public opinion, which would affect congressional opinion, which would affect the chances for impeachment and possibly Starr's own calculations. If any President has the communication skills to pull off this high-wire act, Clinton does. But that assumes that he and his wife could muster the will to set aside their loathing of Ken Starr long enough to ask for his mercy...
Sadly, the AP wire holds no lessons for the non-criminal, only a disgusting education in the telltale signs of child abuse that might save some child's life one day. As I scroll down the wire in fascinated horror, I wonder if any of these stories have a deeper meaning beyond the bestiality of some twisted souls. I don't think they...