Word: training
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...love Thanksgiving for the travel. The holiday train from Boston to New York and back is, without a doubt, one of the most pleasant experiences of my year...
...their inadvertent entertainment value. One segment mostly followed a private detective stalking an erring wife. There was not much to see because most of the images had been digitized to protect the sinful. But as a fantasy, it wasn't bad for a sleepless night or a stalled train ride. Just what kind of challenge would your unfaithful self provide for a gumshoe? And what about your lover...
...scorched sands of Saudi Arabia, 180,000 American ground troops wait impatiently, cleaning their weapons, exercising, thinking of D-day. Flashing overhead are the best attack planes of the U.S. Air Force: F-15s, F-16s, radar-evading F-117 Stealth fighters. At sea, U.S. Navy Aegis cruisers train their Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraqi targets, while aircraft carriers launch and recover squadrons of bombers and interceptors...
...many difficulties faced by women prisoners have no parallels among men. While male lockups may train inmates for such high-paying trades as welding and mechanics, courses in women's facilities still concentrate on homemaking or low-paid skills like beautician and launderer. The pity is that women inmates, often the sole support of their families, are "more motivated career-wise than the men," says Paul Bestolarides, who directs a program at the Northern California Women's Facility in Stockton that includes training in landscaping and electrical work. Too often a woman leaves prison even less equipped to earn...
...Pilobolus Dance Theater and the repertory theater at Yale, where she earned a master's in sax in 1977. She uses a synthesizer, controlled by foot pedals, to amplify her ethereal solos into swirls of sound that evoke the Doppler effect, the drop in pitch that occurs when a train rushes by with its horn blaring. Bloom has six times been cited in Down Beat's annual critics' poll as a talent deserving wider recognition. As to why she first took up the notoriously cranky instrument, she has a winning answer: "It looked so shiny...