Word: predawn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Down Under: festively colored, majestic balloons awaiting me with jets of golden flame roaring into their bellies and liveried waiters serving flutes of champagne. But this is no-frills, no-nonsense Oz, after all, and visitors to the valley can expect, instead, 4:30 a.m. wake-ups for the predawn launch, a dress code of jeans, caps and collared shirts to protect heads and necks from the heat of the flame, and a Balloon Aloft pilot who greets bleary-eyed voyagers by saying, "You may assist us by lifting the baskets off their trailers...
...scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those of two Chinese security guards...
...barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled a 3,000-signature petition and demonstrated before visiting Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou. By Thursday the movement had spread to Taipei, where students wore yellow armbands symbolizing digital solidarity...
Harder to explain away was Senate testimony by Justice Department official Roger Adams suggesting that the White House had scrambled in the predawn hours of Inauguration Day to create a paper trail that made it appear that the Rich pardon had gone through normal channels. Adams suggested the White House even tried to slide it by Justice, portraying Rich as a jet setter "living abroad" and leaving out the detail that he was also a fugitive...
...their vocal, anti-Castro, Cuban-American supporters, Juan Miguel was a dupe or worse who sought his son's return to hell. The father talked about strafing his adversaries with a rifle. The relatives dared the government to take Elian by force. Finally it came to that: a predawn raid that produced dueling images--a terrified Elian cornered in a closet, a happy boy with his father (at left, after their reunion, with crumbs around his mouth from a pre-cartoon-watching snack of toast). It is tempting but inaccurate to say politics simply overrode love in this case. Elian...