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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After the disastrous weekend, the FIA board of directors met in emergency session, but the only decision it made was one designed to improve safety in the pits -- a reaction to a relatively minor mishap in which a wheel flew off a car and hurtled into the Ferrari pit, injuring three mechanics. The federation also announced that it would study the possibility of installing speed controls on Formula One cars, and that it would consider requiring the installation of air bags to prevent the kind of head injuries that apparently killed Ratzenberger and Senna. After the race, Italian officials launched...
Christine A. Sadlowski '94 turned to the West Coast for the evening's companion. Her blind date flew in from California for the big occasion...
...news to the industry. At about the same time -- the summer of 1983 -- the family of Rose Cipollone, a lifetime cigarette smoker who died of lung cancer, had filed suit against Philip Morris and other tobacco companies, contending that they falsely represented the health risks of cigarettes. Philip Morris flew DeNoble and Mele to New York City to brief company executives on their research. According to Mele, however, when DeNoble explained that the rat experiment was a strong indication of the addictiveness of nicotine, one executive said, "Why should I risk a billion-dollar industry on a rat pressing...
MacLeod was outside Viktor Verster Prison in 1990 when Mandela walked out to freedom, clenched fist raised high. Last December he flew with him to Oslo when Mandela accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Those were great public moments, but McLeod has some private memories too. "On a campaign trip he stopped at a home for disabled children. Some kids were singing, and instead of moving on, he went into their classroom and joined them in the song. Before he left, he singled out a little black girl and bowed so low that he could softly bump her forehead with...
...scared her and screamed at her and yelled at her," Newhook says. "He flew off the handle, so my wife was hiding from him in the house...