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...March, Fox will launch three high-profile animated sitcoms: The PJs, newcomer Seth MacFarlane's Family Guy, and the long-awaited Futurama, from Simpsons creator Matt Groening. "People expect us to be different," says Mike Darnell, the wire-haired programming impresario responsible for Fox's "shockumentaries" (World's Deadliest Swarms, When Good Pets Go Bad). "They can find live-action sitcoms everywhere else. They don't have to come here for them...
...hard-charging investigative judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply because murder and torture are not legitimate parts of a head...
Then Beam, last game's hero and Harvard's deadliest three-point marksman, knocked down his second consecutive three-pointer one minute later, staking Harvard to a 16-14 lead it would not relinquish...
...fooling anybody here," says a senior Clinton aide. "This is going to be tough, and we'll have to be in it for the long run." It took 24 years for Abu Nidal, the world's deadliest terrorist of the '70s and '80s, finally to end up in the custody of Egyptian authorities. It could take just as long to bring the man who's becoming the terrorist of the '90s to justice...
...Lake and Overland Surge from Hurricanes. The program, the backbone of all evacuation studies, takes into account storm tracks, local landmarks and coastal geography to calculate the effects of a hurricane storm surge, the dome of water pushed ashore by strong winds. Such surges can be the deadliest aspect of a hurricane. An immense surge overflowed the city of Galveston, Texas, in 1900 and killed more than 8,000 people, and possibly as many as 12,000. A surge raised on Florida's Lake Okeechobee in 1928 killed...