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...once had a dream of timing a race, and woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat," he says. "I vowed to try to do everything that would keep me from timing again...
...decision." The French government, on the other hand, congratulated the winners and applauded the idea of disarmament--but insisted that its tests would continue to ensure a worldwide "security climate." Rotblat, reached by the Nobel committee at his home in the London suburb of Cricklewood, was beaming. "When I woke up this morning," the professor emeritus at the University of London told reporters, "I didn't expect to become such a celebrity...
...game. Fortunately, the Orioles had scheduled an exhibition game against the Naval Academy the next day. The second near-miss came as a result of a bench-clearing melee with the Seattle Mariners during game No. 1,790 in June of '93. Ripken twisted his knee, and when he woke up the next morning, he couldn't put his weight on it. He told his wife Kelly he might not be able to play that night. According to Kelly, "Just before he left for the ball park, I said, 'Maybe you could just play one inning and then come...
...that for three years they have rarely left. But on Wednesday, when the night sky brightened with bombs and the hills around the city rocked with destruction, grief gave way to joy. "I had lost hope that it would ever happen," said Alija Abaz, a modern-languages professor who woke to the sound of nato planes, scooped up his children and joined his wife at the apartment window to watch the smoky haze of the blasts turn orange and red over the city. "We had been disappointed so many times before," he said. "But the world's conscience has finally...
...Barcelona party in December 1991, when she got word that her daughter was in a hospital in Madrid. She flew to her side. "I love you too, Mama," the 27-year-old Paula murmured just before she was seized by convulsions and fell into a coma. She never woke up, and a year later she died in Allende's arms. "I had a choice," the author recalls. "Was I going to commit suicide? Sue the hospital? Or was I going to write a book that would heal...