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...Paul built its first palace, is at least as arcane. The lost arts have been revived: massive ice chunks were chainsawed from Lake Phalen, floated to an underwater conveyor belt, broken into blocks (21 in. by 2 ft. by 3 1/2 ft.), / shaved, sluiced down a long wooden chute, trimmed, plucked by a crane and set into place with a mortar of slushy snow...
...grew up in Flint, Mich., quite well-off and bright to boot. He was out of the chute and headed for Harvard Law by the time they wed in 1966, just after she graduated from college with a vague notion of doing social work. Unpacking at Cambridge, they switched on a hand-me-down TV and discovered Julia Child, whose cooking show came to anchor their weeks...
...most enthusiastic fans of Drexel's computerization, however, come from the humanities, not the sciences. English Professor Valarie Arms, who has developed software to coax better writing out of fledgling scientists, reports that students in every subject are expressing themselves with more clarity and coherence. Psychologist Doug Chute uses the Mac to replace polygraph machines and other behavioral lab paraphernalia. No longer dependent on limited laboratory space and equipment, he can now assign individual research projects to 1,200 introductory-psych students a year. History Professor Eric Brose discovered that by displaying on a Mac the political boundaries and disarmament...
...pistols, knives and $4,500 in cash, Thornton carried night-vision goggles and wore a bulletproof vest. Police believe he had smuggled the drugs, with a value of $15 million, in a twin-engine Cessna. He put the plane on * automatic pilot and bailed out. At treetop level, his chute became fouled. Instead of landing upright, he hit the ground headfirst. The wrecked plane was found 70 miles away in North Carolina...
...plane was refueled as the hijackers had ordered. The terrorists also asked to speak to an official of Amal, the mainstream Shi'ite Muslim political and military force, but Amal leaders refused the request. After announcing their demands, the hijackers released 19 women and children via a yellow escape chute lowered from the forward door. One freed hostage, Irma Garza of Laredo, Texas, said that the terrorists had shot one man in the neck. Passengers were unnerved by the behavior of the hijackers. "They were hysterical, they were screaming," said Patricia Weber of Albuquerque...