Word: awakening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nicole says she feigned being dead until she was certain the group had left. She crawled over to Dustin Kaiser. "Wake up," she said, nudging him. Mike Carter would not awaken. He was dead. "Dustin had to drag me [away from Mike]," Nicole says. With her clothes lost in the woods, Kaiser removed his T shirt for Nicole to wear. As they walked out of the woods to search for help, Kaiser managed to coax a laugh from his friend. "Look, Nicole," he said, pointing to his bloodied scalp. "My head is splitting...
...such luck. On Sol 6, NASA's designation for Pathfinder's sixth day on Mars, they transmitted the appropriate instructions to the lander, which was to relay them to Sojourner. But the Pathfinder team had inexplicably failed to awaken the lander, which is shut down every Martian night, and the message was not received. "One miscalculation cost us the whole evening," sighed J.P.L. deputy project manager Brian Muirhead. As a result, Sojourner remained incapacitated and unable to operate the next day. That led a rover team member to crack, "On the seventh day, it decided to rest...
DIED. THE REV. MAC CHARLES JONES, 47, Baptist minister and bold architect of the National Council of Churches' efforts to investigate the burning of rural black churches throughout the South and awaken public outrage at the arson; of a blood clot; in Dallas...
...speech before a crowded audience last night at the Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-Minn.) said he wants to begin a national discussion on poverty, race and gender to awaken the national conscious...
...happened after HIV gained entry into the body. The virus simply hunkered down inside a few of the immune system's T cells--the linchpins of the body's defensive forces--for anywhere from three to 10 years. Then something, no one knew what, spurred the microbial invader to awaken. In this picture, the AIDS virus spent most of its life hibernating before starting its final, deadly assault...