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...Evening News and possibly the most powerful TV journalist in America. But his emotional, frequently combative style has also made him the most controversial. Rather's heated encounter with George Bush last week was just the latest in a barrage of storms, big and small, that seem to engulf him with the regularity of spring squalls on the plains of his native Texas...
...Syrian initiative could mark a breakthrough in attempts to end the seven-year Iran-Iraq war, which has threatened to engulf other nations in the strategic, oil-rich region...
...hullabaloo last week surrounding the death of Andy Warhol at New York Hospital, an institution almost as well known for its celebrity patients (John F. Kennedy, Bob Hope, the Shah of Iran) as for its skilled surgical staff. The scandal was the second in just four weeks to engulf the medical center. In March the hospital admitted to having provided inadequate care for 18-year-old Libby Zion, the daughter of Sidney Zion, a locally prominent journalist-lawyer. She died March 5, 1984, less than eight hours after being admitted with a high fever and earache. A grand jury charged...
...hundred million years, heat from the core will drive surface layers of the sun so far outward that they will cool to about two-thirds of the current 6,000 degrees C surface temperature, and redden. The sun will have become a red giant, so large that it will engulf the planet Mercury, perhaps extending to encompass the orbit of the earth. Even if the swollen sun stretches no farther out than Mercury, however, the heat reaching earth will be from 500 to 1,000 times as great as it is today. Oceans will boil, and life will be incinerated...
...truck was sent to pull the car out of the hole, Walsh added. "It didn't fully engulf the vehicle. Only the front part fell in," he said...