Word: soaped
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Twin Peaks (ABC). Has it really been less than a year since FBI agent Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) first heard the name Laura Palmer? After its stunning two-hour pilot episode, David Lynch's oddball soap opera wavered a bit, wafted into mysticism and dragged out its who-killed-Laura? mystery too long for some impatient viewers. But the show has retained its idiosyncrasy and its hold on the imagination...
...which are commonly used in oil drilling, dip them in glue and roll them in buckshot," he explains. "Then you would set them off in the middle of a group of Iraqis. To make homemade plastic explosives, you would cook a mixture of diesel oil and powdered soap...
Though there is talk of famine and reports of ever longer lines, most / experts agree that while Soviets may suffer, they will not starve this winter. State stores in Moscow and Leningrad are empty of bread, soap, matches, meat. Yet private shops are abundantly stocked and now account for as much as one- half the Soviet food supply, though they charge up to ten times state prices. With the exception of desperately poor areas like Uzbekistan, most regions are managing to feed their people. But the cost is high: nearly everyone is reduced to scavenging and hoarding, rather than working...
...York founded Project Street Beat, a neighborhood organization that trolls the Bronx, visiting the places where teenage prostitutes gather. It offers free medical treatment and counseling, hands out sandwiches, clean clothes, "bleach kits" for sterilizing needles, and "dignity packs": Ziploc toilet kits containing a toothbrush, toothpaste, a comb, soap, a towelette, condoms, tampons and sanitary napkins. Sometimes the workers drive the kids to a local McDonald's for a snack and a chance to talk...
...changed radically since Carson's day. "Low-impact camping" rules mean skipping the traditional campfire unless the fire pit is cleaned and the ashes buried. Opened food must be consumed on the spot. An informal "30-second rule" applies to spilled food: eat it fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable. Breakfast is scheduled soon after a groggy...