Word: wounded
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole, NASA has always treated Mars with respect. American spacecraft have flown by, orbited and even landed on the Red Planet. What they've never done is wound it. If scientists ever hope to understand Mars fully, however, they are going to have to puncture the dry Martian rind to sample the planetary pulp below. Next week NASA will launch a ship that will begin that process...
...like Swiss chalets--and a shrine, a flakapau, which displays blue wooden figures, the size of large chess pawns, that represent ancestors. A medicine man sits in his doorway; he cannot rise to greet us because his right leg is greatly swollen from a snakebite. He has treated his wound successfully. Some children follow us as we go, but most are too self-possessed to become groupies. When approached, they respond to questions politely, but mainly they seem to be studying...
...child psychology have quietly debated these questions for years, but the volume is getting turned up by activists on both sides during this hunting season--the first since two troubled boys, 11 and 13, reared in Arkansas' culture of guns and hunting, used stolen weapons to kill or wound 15 of their teachers and classmates in Jonesboro last March. The indelible image left by that horror (published, among other places, on TIME's cover) is the picture of one of the killers, barely out of diapers, dressed in hunter's camouflage and toting a rifle...
...race wound down, with Boston Globe and Boston Herald polls showing Capuano neck-and-neck with Flynn as of late August. In the latter of days of the campaign, Bachrach began to pull out all the stops...
...That bridge is alive and well in the memories of the neighbors," Cuno said. "It's still an open wound in the community...