Word: trips
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...started out badly with Gorbachev in 1986, comparing the Soviet leader's public relations talents with those of Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. When Kohl met with Gorbachev in Moscow last February, the two were civil to each other, nothing more. This time Kohl asked if part of his trip could be spent in Gorbachev's home region of Stavropol and the nearby spas, where the two leaders might relax and get to know each other...
...footer by the time she was 14. She loved horses and dreamed of working with animals, but her college science grades were too low to qualify her for veterinary school. Working as an occupational therapist proved an insufficient outlet for Fossey's yearnings. In 1963 she took her first trip to Africa, where she paired off with a strapping young Rhodesian farmer. An on-again-off-again engagement eventually ended, as did a later romance with a nature photographer. Her tempestuous affair with Africa endured...
...local showrooms? Probably never, says Paul MacCready, the guru of low-powered transportation and one of the designers of the GM Sunraycer, winner of the 1987 World Solar Challenge across Australia. To run dependably on cloudy days, a solar car would have to carry sufficient power to make the trip on batteries alone. Better to charge the car from a wall socket and use the solar cells elsewhere -- perhaps at power stations to ease the load of generators running on nuclear or nonrenewable fossil fuels. The real value of Sunraycer, says MacCready, was that its improvements in aerodynamics, lightweight materials...
...Lars. How was the trip...
...accommodations are cramped or commodious, on every railway a different America floats past the window. The paths of trains are like those roads that author William Least Heat Moon called "blue highways," the forgotten byways that lead into the heart -- and the soul -- of the country. Such a trip unreels a documentary about smokestack America that pans across abandoned factories, stockyards, waste dumps and prisons. It is also a voyeuristic voyage more real than Roseanne, crazier than A Current Affair. For the train catches the nation in its undershirt, unguarded in its backyard after work, quarreling amid rusting engine blocks...