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...that pulse roared for 40 or 50 seconds--higher-magnitude quakes typically shudder for 60 seconds or more--through the Elysian Park fault under downtown Los Angeles? ``The only way to get a full picture of how buildings react in an earthquake is to have one,'' says Thomas Heaton, a Geological Survey seismologist. But computer simulations undertaken by Heaton and collaborators show that steel- frame high-rises could have their feet kicked out from under them, and low buildings sitting on spongy pads could be smashed against their concrete foundation walls...
...Thomasons seem less interested in political satire than in replicating Designing Women. Suzanne's staff is another kaffeeklatsch of man-abused females: a spacy receptionist left by her husband (Valerie Mahaffey); a boozy press secretary fired by the Washington Post (Teri Garr); and a hard-boiled chief aide (Patricia Heaton) embittered because the Congressman whe worked for ("the man I served...under for 14 years") is now in prison and his wife is getting all the conjugal visits...
Police Captain Kevin Collins sputters with outrage when he speaks of the night five years ago when 15-year-old Craig Price murdered Joan Heaton and her two daughters in their home. "We think of what these little kids went through . . . that screaming . . . that unmerciful attack." When police arrived at the Heaton house in Warwick, Rhode Island, they found three broken bodies: Joan, 39, had been stabbed 11 times, strangled and bitten in the face; Jennifer, 10, had been knifed 62 times; Melissa, 8, had eight stab wounds and a crushed skull...
...adopts the geological definition, half of all so-called natural spring waters would have to change their labels. No bottler, though, wants to give up the highly coveted "spring" label, since it commands premium prices over other waters. If the FDA stops short of the strict standard, contends James Heaton III, president of the National Spring Water Association in Banner Elk, North Carolina, "the government will be handing the big boys a license to lie to the public." Meantime, the industry's lobbying effort, warns Heaton, could backfire. Consumers, he says, could lose even more confidence in bottled waters. With...
ROOM FOR TWO (ABC, debuting March 24, 9:30 p.m. EST). Linda Lavin and Patricia Heaton spar with panache as a widowed mother and her TV-producer daughter. Nothing new, but sitcoms far worse than this have spent years in the Nielsen...