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Rollerblading at breakneck speed down Newbury Street, Thomas as brought to a painfully abrupt halt when the door of a parked automobile swung suddenly open, placing a steel wall directly in his path. The 19-year old managed to escape massive injury by dragging one skate sideways behind him to slow down and breaking the inevitable crash with thrust-forward arms...
...investors, the biggest concern involves the hazards of entrusting huge and sensitive financial markets so totally to computers, notoriously prone to breakdowns and break-ins. Warns Fred Shipley, professor of finance at DePaul University: "A computer bug could bring the capital markets to a crashing halt." Last month, for instance, a minor computer failure at the Chicago Board Options Exchange shut down trading for about 90 minutes. Although the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has tested Globex to its satisfaction, it cannot guarantee that the system will be fail-safe. Concedes chairman Wendy Gramm: "We haven't thought of every contingency...
...current imbroglio started in 1975, when 2,000 Catholics who favored priesthood for women met in Detroit. The result was the Women's Ordination Conference (WOC), a group with 4,000 members -- and ceaseless debate. In 1977 the Vatican doctrinal office sought to halt the discussion with a decree insisting on an all-male priesthood. In 1979, during Pope John Paul's first U.S. visit, Sister Theresa Kane, then president of the organization for leaders of women's orders, publicly informed the Pontiff of "the intense suffering and pain" many churchwomen experience...
...environment and development in its investments. Some participants observed that the summit might have achieved more if it had lowered its sights and addressed the environmentally damaging consequences of present international assistance and domestic subsidies. World Bank initiatives like the Tropical Forestry Action Plan were billed as efforts to halt the destruction of rain forests, but in many cases the plan became an instrument of deforestation by fostering projects to open virgin forests to loggers. World Bank president Lewis Preston announced at the summit that the institution was willing to contribute $1.5 billion of its profits toward environment-related projects...
WHAT WILL IT REQUIRE, SHORT OF SENDING IN THE U.S. Air Force, to halt Serbian aggression in Bosnia-Herzegovina? Clearly it will take measures sterner than the U.N. economic sanctions imposed three weeks ago. Defiant Serb gunners last week turned the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo into hell on earth, killing at least 30 people and injuring hundreds more. Thousands of shells blasted buildings and crashed into streets, terrorizing the 300,000 remaining residents, who mostly cowered in basement shelters. Sarajevo TV broadcast what appeared to be a military radio message from Serbian General Ratko Mladic, intercepted less than two weeks...