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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just moments before, Sheena Dowe, 22, had left her baby son Amause with a friend in the dining car and taken the friend's toddler to the toilet in the sleeper. When the crash rocked the train, Dowe immediately pushed her friend's son out of the bathroom and screamed at him to run back to his mother. Then the door slammed shut, trapping her within. Meanwhile, as baggage flew and bodies tumbled, June Bonnin, 47, was trying to save her wards. The co-proprietor of an elegant bed-and-breakfast in Nesbit, Miss., was with her daughter Ashley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death at the Crossing | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

Born near Bordeaux in 1910, Cousteau had dreamed of a career as a French navy aviator until a near fatal automobile crash dashed those hopes--and serendipitously led him to his true vocation. Taking up swimming to strengthen his broken arms, Cousteau fell in love with the sea. "Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course," he later wrote. "It happened to me on that summer's day when my eyes were opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jacques-Yves Cousteau: Lord Of The Depths | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...files that push the very envelope of the genre. One person I know is serializing a soft-porn novel. Another has cut-and-pasted a 90-page academic paper. There is no real limit to what you can do with a plan file, so long as it doesn't crash the server...

Author: By Joshua Derman, | Title: Deconstructing the Plan File | 3/26/1999 | See Source »

...hope he doesn't say something too crazy [at Commencement] or the world will go insane -making the stock market crash or something," Thurston said...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Greenspan to Speak at June Commencement | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

...hope he doesn't say something too crazy [atCommencement] or the world will go insane--makingthe stock market crash or something," Thurstonsaid...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Greenspan Will Speak at June Commencement | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

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