Word: woundedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Two days later, David Gelernter, an associate professor of computer science at Yale, received a package at his office in the college's computer-science center. It blew up in his hands. Wounded in the abdomen, chest, right eye and hands, he ran downstairs to a nearby university medical clinic...
It started with an assault on Pakistani U.N. peacekeepers in Mogadishu and escalated into a bombing campaign against the attack's instigator, Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid. Finally, U.N. troops stormed Aidid's stronghold, forcing him to flee, and to remain separated from most of his supporters. Five U.N. troops...
The voice heard here, and in related stories about boxing and war, is so strong and clear that it is hard to imagine the author finding another as effective. A couple of successful experiments don't entirely settle the matter. One sketches a stud who, though he senses dimly that...
The first attack was swift -- and expected. After days of blatant preparations, at 9 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, two AC-130H Spectre gunships and American Cobra attack helicopters thundered over Mogadishu on a mission of retaliation for the killings, one week earlier, of 23 United Nations peacekeepers. For the...
Since Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. in 1924, Hollywood has often toyed with the looking-glass motif, though never on Hero's mammoth scale, where so many cars crash that the audience becomes rubberneckers. Schwarzenegger, a live- action cartoon in the flesh, and McTiernan, who made the brains explode on...