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...Miner Judy Mullins, 40, in the hand in July while she was picketing in Canada, Ky. The walls of an office at Rawl Sales & Processing Co., a Massey subsidiary in Lobata, W. Va., are pocked with bullet holes. Somebody even soaped one highway and caused a nonunion truck to crash...
...crash in Japan was the fourth major air disaster this year. It followed the apparent midair disintegration of an Air-India 747 off the coast of Ireland on June 23, in which all 329 occupants perished. In February, an Iberia Boeing 727 crashed into a mountain in Spain, killing all 148 aboard. Just two weeks ago, a Delta Air Lines wide-bodied Lockheed L-1011 failed to reach the runway while attempting a landing in a thunderstorm at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport, dooming 134. The accidents seemed to have little in common; in all but one, however, widebodied airliners were involved...
...been indications aplenty that some high U.S. officials--and many ordinary Americans--find China's rise to be a source of anxiety. China, critics say, manipulates its currency to keep its goods cheap, hence destroying American jobs. China steals intellectual property from U.S. firms. China is engaged in a crash program of modernization of its armed forces...
...local princess dives for pearls in a deep-sea grotto that is guarded by a possessive shark. The simple story is told with rapturous visual poetry that captures both nature's beauty and its threat. Murnau, 42, had his own rendezvous with tragedy: he died in a car crash shortly before Tabu's release...
...rifle. He whistles a warning to his homeboys on the street. A black-and-white comes into view, doing a slow lap around four or five blocks, up Pico, across Mariposa, down and back around. Then it leaves. The Playboys laugh at the departing cops. Two years ago, CRASH teams were all over them, jumping out of their patrol cars to search them for weapons and drugs, getting them to pull up their shirts to show their tattoos, pumping them for information about shootings. These days the cops barely engage. The night before, Rowdy had spray-painted a two-story...