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...residents of low-lying coastal areas are anxious this summer, they have a dozen reasons--and more are undoubtedly on the way. The hurricane season has not yet peaked, but menacing storms are already rumbling across the Atlantic Ocean one after another, like warplanes taking off from a carrier deck. Last week alone, four ominously swirling air masses zigzagged across satellite weather maps, packed so close together that it almost seemed they might merge to form a single monster storm. "You feel like you're standing in the line of fire," says Debby Sandberg, a high school math teacher...
...inspired by the familiar Taurus oval grille, took an elliptical route. Viewed from the side, the new Taurus has an elongated oval shape, as do its headlights, rear window, door handles, control panel, airbag pad and more. It has no chrome trim, no visible seams, a curving, dropped rear deck and a steep, sloping windshield. "We kept trying to make it sleek, sleek and sleeker," says Gaffka. "We wanted to suck the body molding right down over the mechanics as if it were carved out of a single piece of metal...
Such earnest talk may leave cynics wondering whether the Clintonites were still analyzing leadership more than exercising it. The early reports are not encouraging. "The whole deck was reshuffled," said one German diplomat after the meeting in Bonn, "and Lake and Tarnoff came here not showing a great deal of imagination." A French diplomat called the U.S. visit a "very positive element" and said, "We feel that the Contact Group should first develop a common approach and then present it to the parties in ex-Yugoslavia." It would appear that in neither case did the Americans take charge...
...coast of that island, at 10 a.m. on May 10, 1945, a Japanese Zero flew in low against the U.S. aircraft carrier Bunker Hill and crashed onto the flight deck, igniting the 30 planes waiting to fly sorties. Thirty seconds later, another Japanese suicide flight dropped out of the sky and struck the Bunker Hill amidships, ripping open a 12m. hole with the blast of its 250-kg bomb and turning the fast carrier into an inferno for the next six hours. Of the 3,000 crewmen on board, 353 died in the smoke and flames. The kamikaze attacks were...
...debut album, Jacky Terrasson (Blue Note), he squeezes fresh insight and nuance out of fossilized tunes like My Funny Valentine, Bye Bye Blackbird and Porter's I Love Paris by accelerating the tempos, throwing in breakneck stops and starts and reassembling the melodies as if shuffling a deck of cards. The effect is to make sentimental and familiar numbers sound strangely renewed. "There's really no point in covering standards if you're not going to make them sound fresh," Terrasson says. Anyone who listens to his treatment of a standby such as Time After Time will agree...