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DIED. CHRISTOPHER COCKERELL, 88, inventor of the Hovercraft; in Hythe, Hampshire, England. He got the idea by making an empty cat-food can float within a larger coffee can with gusts from a vacuum cleaner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jun. 14, 1999 | 6/14/1999 | See Source »

...truck sales account for a third of the U.S. market. By voluntarily cleaning up its truck emissions, Ford is challenging the industry to do likewise. Says Daniel Becker, director of energy policy at the Sierra Club: "Ford deserves applause for coming out earlier than they were required to with cleaner trucks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Green Fords | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...Harvard student apparently live a little cleaner than their college counterparts in Maryland...

Author: By Ari Behar, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: On-Campus Living Ups Meningitis Risk | 5/28/1999 | See Source »

...fine by him, like the hurricane relief to Central America and the FEMA funds for Oklahoma," he says. But Washington senator Slade Gorton's gold-mine rider directly overturns an administration decision to block the mine, and Clinton still has the political capital on Kosovo to demand a leaner, cleaner bill. "It's a game of chicken, but the Republicans already look bad on Kosovo," Branegan says. "Clinton could probably score some points by accusing Congress of slowing down the bill with pork, and they'd have to clean it up and send it back." Hopefully sometime before NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans Take Fork Out of the Pork -- a Little | 5/14/1999 | See Source »

...this, Mora wisely decides to inhabit the mind of an aged Chicana named Aunt Carmen. The poems in Mora's books are presented as the secret prayers of Aunt Carmen, a strong-willed eighty-year-old house cleaner, to the various saints that make up the religious infrastructure of Southwestern Catholicism. Through Carmen, Mora explores the issues at the heart of religious faith...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: More Than a Fad: Carmen's Cult of Saints | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

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