Word: heatedly
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DIED. STIRLING SILLIPHANT, 78, TV and film writer; in Bangkok. His screenplays ranged from the socially conscious Oscar winner In the Heat of the Night to the haunting fable Charly to the flat-out thriller The Poseidon Adventure...
...mere $12,000 buys the system: a heat-sensitive chair that contours to the body and simulates zero gravity; a million-pixel, head-mounted display that feeds the eyes, headphones that fill the ears, and a quarter-inch hose that fits under the nose...
...budget battle is over, at least for fiscal year 1996. President Clinton and Congressional leaders have agreed to legislation that would fund several government agencies which are currently operating under temporary budgets through next year. With the latest continuing budget resolution set to expire at midnight Thursday,the heat was on Republicans eager to avoid a repeat of earlier shutdowns. With polls showing the public largely holding Republicans responsible for failing to reach a budget deal, Washington correspondent James Carney says that Clinton and Congressional Democrats had emerged from months of contentious budget negotiations and government shutdowns with greater leverage...
...miracle child. One of only six children at the America's Kids day-care center on the second floor of the federal building to survive the explosion, 20-month-old P.J. was battered almost beyond recognition. One lung collapsed. He had burns on half his body, and the heat fused his vocal cords together. One earlobe was ripped off, both eardrums were ruptured, and his corneas were damaged. His left arm snapped in three places. For 30 days P.J. remained in the intensive-care unit at Children's Hospital of Oklahoma and doctors prepared his grandparents and legal guardians, Deloris...
...this, McCormack insists, "we were ignorant, and to the extent that that ignorance is a failure on our part, then we deserve some of this heat." St. Martin's is not the first U.S. publisher to yank a controversial book off its list. In the most celebrated recent instance, Simon & Schuster decided in 1990 not to release Bret Easton Ellis' novel American Psycho after advance reviewers complained about its voyeuristic scenes of women being tortured. (Knopf later bought the discarded manuscript and published it in paperback.) But the St. Martin's case is more complex because it involves a work...