Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the 500-year flood that submerged the town last week, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 people and sparking fires that destroyed half the historic business district. Still, you just can't beat it. And it took no more than a day or two of watching Grand Forks begin its long, painful recovery to understand what the locals meant...
...rebels who were holding them prisoner would have started their regular makeshift soccer game in the spacious ground-floor living room. It went just that way. At about 3 p.m. the listeners heard eight guerrillas, including their commander, Nestor Cerpa Cartolini, stash their rifles in a corner and begin a shouting, thumping game. The army flashed the word to President Alberto Fujimori, who was across town at a divorce hearing with his estranged wife Susana. He instantly gave the order to attack. "We knew," he said later, "that it was the moment of minimum risk...
...Jorge Gumucio Granier. The news startled Gumucio, who instantly remembered that the guerrillas had practiced more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades into the rooms the hostages occupied. Gumucio did not remember later how many minutes he waited for the attack to begin, but he said, "To me it was an eternity." Juan Julio Wicht, a Jesuit priest who had stayed on in the residence despite an offer of freedom, got the word that rescuers were coming in but dismissed it as black humor...
...normal subjects. One explanation: the addicts' neurons, assaulted by abnormally high levels of dopamine, have responded defensively and reduced the number of sites (or receptors) to which dopamine can bind. In the absence of drugs, these nerve cells probably experience a dopamine deficit, Volkow speculates, so while addicts begin by taking drugs to feel high, they end up taking them in order not to feel...
However, with houses next year officially closed until mid-week, the administrators are forced today to begin deciding which groups deserve special temporary housing...