Word: sighting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...from the four wars Vietnam has fought since 1945. An additional 300,000 disabled soldiers are scattered throughout Vietnam, doing the best they can without the help of the government. In wheelchairs, the ex- soldiers at Ha Bac move quietly among the low-slung buildings, a poignant and disturbing sight...
After five years of confrontation that resulted in fistfights and hundreds of arrests, a compromise may be in sight. The Chippewa have lowered their spearing quotas, and the state is making plans for attracting more tourism to the region. But there is still a danger that hotheads will explode during the three-week spearfishing season. "There's fear among people who don't know one another and are suspicious that the other is getting something they aren't," says Robert Tully, a "peaceful witness" who came to Lake Nokomis to observe and document events. "These are all people who love...
...what if I tend to faint at the sight of blood? So what if I refuse to play frisbee because my mom once knew someone who lost an eye in a freak frisbee accident? People with low pain thresholds happen to make very careful doctors...
...President immediately began taking eyedrops to relieve his condition, and will continue to take them or some other kind of medication twice daily for the rest of his life. At 65, he has not lost any vision, and he is unlikely to have a serious loss of sight in the future. "I haven't felt a thing, felt it at all," said Bush, who was wearing sunglasses as he emerged from the checkup. The President, who passed all his other tests smartly, claimed that he felt "like a spring colt...
Elephant tusks, rhino horns and leopard skins confiscated from poachers were a common sight in the "ivory room" of the Kenyan Game Department's Mombasa office, where Werikhe used to work. But a pair of 50-kg (110-lb.) tusks brought in one day by a game warden induced him to start his one-man crusade. "Being an African, I see wildlife as part of my heritage," Werikhe says. "If wildlife goes, then part of me is dead. I wanted to campaign for wildlife in my own private...