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...only way out. Some patrons smashed windows with barstools. Several dozen made it out unscathed; the rest of the estimated 350 patrons were still desperately clambering for escape when the stage fire engulfed the entire one-story wooden building. Scores were burned alive or suffocated under the crush of people amassed near that main door...
...collision, a high riding SUV can plow over the hood or door sill of a smaller car and crush the passenger compartment. Several new SUVs incorporate safety bars or design features to prevent such incidents...
...normalcy will convince Sri Lankans on both sides of the ethnic divide that these talks, unlike many in the past, must succeed. "It became clear the LTTE could not throw the Sri Lankan armed forces out of the North and East," he says. "Neither could the armed forces crush the LTTE. It was a stalemate. We would have been fighting for 20 years more...
...Orange Crush When France Telecom CEO Thierry Breton speaks these days, heads roll. Desperate to cut the company's €68 billion debt, Breton announced last week that the company will shed 7,500 French jobs this year, rising to 22,000 worldwide - 10% of its total - by 2005. But the rank and file won't be the only ones looking for work: Graham Howe, deputy chief executive and co-founder of U.K. subsidiary Orange, announced he would step down after Breton unexpectedly gave the top job to Orange board member Sol Trujillo. Howe was the third top Orange executive...
...make some dough off of unexpressed high school angst. The frenzied flower-selling activity in the hallways—“Buy a Rose for Community Service!”—spurs frantic discussion among the cliques. Should you send one to your secret crush with a cryptic message? A real message? Should it arrive during math or English? Do you think you even have a chance? Thus student groups increase their budgets—and often their ubiquitous social “slush funds”—with the cash cow that is Valentine?...