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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...invited as observers. Indeed, after bravely perusing transcripts from the plane's cockpit voice recorder (the captain at one point noted the plane was climbing especially fast, like a "homesick angel") and toughing out excruciatingly detailed computer-generated crash simulations and a slide marked "Chart 4.7--Body Fragmentation," several dozen relatives marched from the hall to protest the unapologetic testimony of medical examiner Dr. Charles Wetli, whose work they still think was slow and insensitive...
...film is an elaborate, fitfully funny Tarantoon about chatty folks with big guns. Working reverently from Elmore Leonard's novel Rum Punch, the writer-director tosses half a dozen wary people into the pit of their avarice and lets us guess who will survive. Pam Grier's title character is a flight attendant running money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face...
...finish her press conference so he could step up to his own battery of TV cameras and proclaim that he was out from under the shadow of a special prosecutor. While he waited, Gore shed his suit coat and strolled to the foul line, chatting with a few dozen seventh- and eighth-graders who were trying out for the school's team. He bounced the ball a time or two, looking about as casual as Gore ever looks in public, then turned to the basket and, with exaggerated ease, lofted the ball into the air. It swished through the hoop...
Thousands of wind turbines have been installed in a dozen European countries. This year Denmark has been getting 6% of its electricity from wind power. Developers have started to install windmills in the shallow North Sea, whose winds could one day meet much of Europe's power needs. The boom is also being felt in Asia, where wind-power companies, in joint ventures with Europeans, are installing turbines in India and China...
...Bill Clinton and other hamburger-loving Americans, nothing could have been scarier. At the height of the barbecue season last August, more than a dozen people became seriously ill from ground beef contaminated by a virulent strain of bacteria known as E. coli 0157:H7, which was traced to a Columbus, Neb., processing plant. The incident prompted the nation's largest meat recall, a whopping 25 million lbs. of beef patties. It also brought a vow from gourmand Clinton to wage a major war for food safety...