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Storm-chasing scientists do have a genius for coming up with some pretty wild ideas, however. The University of Oklahoma's Howard Bluestein really did develop an instrument akin to the device called Dorothy in Twister. Bluestein, who was one of the models for meteorologist Bill Harding (Bill Paxton) in the movie, named his device the Totable Tornado Observatory, TOTO for short, and tried to intercept an oncoming funnel. TOTO was a bit unwieldy (it tipped the scales at 400 lbs.), so researchers switched to the more sprightly Turtles, which are cheaper to build and more easily deployed...
Last Dance (written by Ron Koslow and Steven Haft) is also akin to Dead Man Walking, with Stone as the grizzled con and Rob Morrow in the Sister Helen Prejean role. Cindy Liggett has spent 12 years on death row for a double murder she committed while on drugs; hope, for her, is the one hallucinogen not worth tasting. But Rick Hayes, a lawyer from the state clemency board, becomes convinced that her case has merit--and falls a little in love with her. Why not? This wretched killer is, after all, Sharon Stone...
Price competition is an alien concept to the handful of firms that dominate the cereal industry. "Their rivalry is more akin to the choreographed grunts of televised wrestling than a cutthroat duel to the death," says John Connor, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University. "The ultimate weapon, steep price cuts, is rarely used." That has kept profit margins high. Ronald Cotterill, director of the Food Marketing Policy Center at the University of Connecticut, estimates that cereal firms pocket an average of 17% of their sales as operating income, vs. 7% to 8% for the food industry...
...millionaire publisher said he needed "a win or something akin to a win" in next week's Midwest primaries. "Obviously, we can't go to California without a breakthrough," Forbes of the March 26 contest...
...places offer the surfeit of foreign newspapers one finds in Harvard Square, and few cities, and fewer suburbs, provide much akin to the mind-opening experience of living among foreign students. Harvard graduates its students into fast-paced lives set in remarkably sterile, monolingual places, where finding Le Monde or Der Spiegel proves difficult, and locating other periodicals is impossible...