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Last Monday, 18-month-old Jonathan Waldick of Kissimmee, Fla., was asleep, wrapped in a blanket, when a tornado roared through his room. After the twister passed, Waldick's great-grandmother, Shirley Driver, along with several neighbors, began a frantic search...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twisters, Tragedies And Miracles | 3/9/1998 | See Source »

...think we came into the game maybe too confident," Harvard co-captain Megan Basil said. "It seemed when things weren't going our way people just got really frantic. We were a step slow to everything; it was like we were helpless. It was just mass chaos. It was just terrible...

Author: By Eduardo Perez-giz, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Big Green Upsets W. Hoops, 78-67 in Ivy Finale | 3/4/1998 | See Source »

...years since the discovery of DNA, science has been laboring relentlessly to make Krauthammer's fears an inevitable possibility. To sound a frantic alarm at this late date smacks of Chicken Little. Let's get on with it. Let's figure out how to do cloning rationally and cautiously. In a hundred years, people, or at least our cloned descendants, will wonder what all the fuss was about. GEORGE HILLOW Newport News...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 9, 1998 | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...would take a while for her mother to reach Washington by train from New York City; Monica was frantic, and Starr's team had to calm her down. They bought her cookies. They watched Ethel Merman with her on TV. They took her shopping in the mall downstairs at Crate & Barrel. Lewinsky's father back in California had reached a longtime family friend, a medical malpractice lawyer named William Ginsburg, and Ginsburg reached Starr's team by phone around 10:30 that night. Ginsburg asked them to write down the terms of an immunity deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Clinton's Crisis: Truth or...Consequences | 2/2/1998 | See Source »

...intense negotiations, the Independent lent us its even more primitive type-setting facilities; all evening long, a steady stream of first-year compers shuttled typescript and galleys through the snows between Plympton Street and the Freshman Union. Down in the shop, we put together the paper in a frantic, beer-fueled haze. Around 5 a.m., the dread moment finally arrived--when, in the absence of pressman Lew Brooks, we would have to wrestle with The Crimson's hulking offset press by ourselves...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Of Chicken Little and Major Blizzards: The Show Must Go On | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

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