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...been no general announcement of what people should do in the event of an emergency evacuation. The government has not undertaken any significant construction of temporary housing, and some shelters were in areas now deemed unsafe. There has been plenty of finger pointing, but it is unclear where the blame for the current situation truly lies. Montserrat has its own elected local government, yet remains a British colony. And so, Montserratians argue, Britain has an obligation to assist them...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The National Transportation Safety Board stuck to its guns today, ruling that ValuJet Flight 592 which plunged into a Florida swamp was brought down by a fire ignited by loaded chemical oxygen generators. The NTSB was even-handed in aportioning blame, saying SabreTech, ValuJet and the FAA are all partially responsible for the disaster, which killed 105 passengers and five crew members last year. According to the report, SabreTech helped cause the accident by failing to properly package and identify the hazardous oxygen generators. ValuJet was slammed for improperly overseeing the maintenance contractor while the FAA was charged...
...newsgroup alt.destroy.microsoft. And the MacWorld crowd booed Gates' image even more than Jobs' turncoat words. But there were cheers too. "Everybody was booing Microsoft," says attendee Mark Lilback, 24, "and then they were like, 'Oh, Bill Gates is listening to this,' and they started to applaud." Who could blame them? They knew the truth: they were a conquered kingdom's starving partisans. Booing Gates meant biting the only hand left with the wherewithal to feed them...
Nevertheless, the worm has already begun to turn again. Last winter, Whitehead expanded her essay into a book, The Divorce Culture, and all hell broke loose. A New York Times reviewer dubbed Whitehead's treatise a "self-blame book" and mocked its scholarship. Esquire magazine ran the bold-face cover line DIVORCE IS GOOD FOR YOU. In the New York Times, essayist Katha Pollitt took on the new Louisiana law that created "covenant marriage," a more binding vow that can be ended only because of extreme circumstances. "You don't have to be abused or betrayed," Pollitt declared, "to have...
...places the beginning of the downturn in August 1929, some two months before the Crash. And in October 1987 the U.S. experienced a stock-market crash similar in magnitude to 1929's, with no immediate economic downturn. Indeed, the economy's expansion continued until July 1990. Many economists now blame the Federal Reserve and its actions for the 1929 downturn and the subsequent Great Depression. GAIL E. MAKINEN Arlington...