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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just waiting to get me, aren't you?" she said to the hive of reporters as she confronted a towering sundae with whipped cream and lots of nuts last week at the Dairy Queen in Manchester, N.H. As the candidate's wife, she could count on pretty pictures. But this was her Opening Day, and the lenses were aiming at her tonsils. "Well," she said, opening her mouth and leaping into the abyss, "here goes...
...midafternoon National Weather Service meteorologists noted a startling accumulation of the supercell thunderstorms that spawn whirlwinds. By 4:45 they had issued their first tornado warning. Starting at 5:00 and continuing for 20 hours, a legion of twisters--more than 40, coming so fast that the exact count is uncertain--scourged the region. One, a behemoth originating near Chickasha, may be historic. Not for the width of its funnel--although at nearly a mile across, that was extraordinary--but a mobile Doppler radar from the University of Oklahoma clocked its peak wind speed at 318 m.p.h., which would make...
...really come together as a boat," Rebecca Marks said. "We've settled into a line-up and have several moves we can count on for a strong race...
...before major studios started to finance quirky, intellectual art movies again as they did in the pre-Lucas days. The race would be not to make the most stimulating or challenging movie but the most scintillating one--the movie with the biggest effects, the most explosions, the greatest body count--all in the hope that this time, the magic that sold Star Wars would be found again...
...TIME Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson, while acknowledging that a whole lot of pilfering has been going on -- and that the U.S.' face should be plenty red over it -- doesn't think that the advances made by the Chinese count for all that much. Especially since the DF-31 technology is from the 1970s. "The wonder isn't so much that the Chinese have this miniaturization technology, it's that it took them so long to put it to use," says Thompson. "And remember: The Chinese already have nukes pointed at us. The question isn't what variations they have...