Word: mining
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Many participants welcomed the new absence of political tension. Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski of Duke University said, "I've coached several times against the Soviets and never used the good-guy-vs.-bad-g uy approach. These kids of mine have nothing to do with politics. They get up to play the Soviets because they're good on a basketball floor, not because of some political evil. And that's how it should be." But when his squad met the Soviets in a sold-out first-round game at the Seattle Coliseum, the favored Americans fell, 92-85. Some fans...
...pathology of the illness. So far, although he is HIV-positive, he does not have any symptoms of AIDS. "But I don't understand it," he says. "So many others have already died. Forty of my friends, including my best friend, David Kalstone . . . my editor, Bill Whitehead. Students of mine have died. It doesn't seem right, students dying before their teacher -- like children before their parents, the worst tragedy...
...GOOD will last February I agreed to take over a service project this summer for a friend of mine. "It's all set up," he said. "All you have to do is drive seven Italian teenagers, all of whom speak some English, from their house in Cambridge to a Catholic parish in Dorchester where they'll be tutoring kids in math and helping out at the parish summer camp...
...with the Poles, in their assessment of what I proposed, is that they misunderstood my argument. I never left any doubt that on the road to unification, Poland's western border must be guaranteed. There are different opinions on how to do this, but I am firmly convinced that mine will carry the most political weight. This week in the East German parliament and in our Bundestag we will pass resolutions clearly stating that a unified Germany will conclude a treaty with Poland, binding under international law, in which the border will be guaranteed definitively. More cannot be done...
Kyaw Lin hangs out with the other kids at Komura, doing chores and waiting for the orders of Lieut. Brown, 38, a Karen who lost his right leg to a mine ten years ago. His stump is covered by an intricate blue swirl of tattoos. Unable to go out on patrol, he trains the children and the volunteers from nearby villages. Brown insists that the children are not forced to fight, and he says he tries to keep them back. But, he acknowledges reluctantly, sometimes they do go to war. He adds that the children are mostly good fighters...