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...after trying desperately to get out, Carterfound herself back in Iowa, with the threat ofhaving to stay another six months. "They thought Iwas head-injured and crazy. They made me take I.Q.tests. They tried to persuade me my brains leakedout on the highway and I was less intelligent."Despite the severity of the accident, Carter saysshe recovered faster than any of the doctorspredicted and even made it back to Harvard toattend two classes that same semester...
...investigation, the Justice Department is reported to have assigned a team to look into Gates' plan to bundle software for Microsoft Network in every copy of Windows 95-a brilliant marketing ploy that could instantly make the company a key player, if not the key player, on the information highway...
...kick one, as the main character in Kids does-without hitting a movie about troubled teens in heat and on the rampage. Between frantically perfunctory bouts of sexmaking, the rich kids in the Spanish film Stories of the Kronen hang recklessly from a bridge over a busy highway. The teenage girls in the Thai film Daughters sniff glue as a break from their stealing and prostitution. In La Haine, denizens of the bleak projects outside Paris rip off Chinese grocers and face off in grudge matches with the police. For the drug-dealing Arab pre-teens...
...police hustled Asahara into a van while hundreds of photographers and reporters looked on. The press had been camped out in front of the compound for hours. The van sped in a small convoy on the highway back to Tokyo with news helicopters in pursuit. During the drive, officials informed Asahara that he was under arrest in connection with the murder of 12 people killed in the sarin attack on the Tokyo subway on March 20. Asahara responded, "Could a blind man like me possibly do such a thing...
Alabama's first chain gang in decades does not yet know the drill. On a lonely stretch of highway near the Alabama-Tennessee border, guards and bloodhounds look on as 320 convicts from the Limestone Correctional Facility try to negotiate the tricky business of walking in unison while shackled. Clad in immaculate white uniforms (emblazoned with the words chain gang lest anyone mistake them for pastry chefs), the men are equipped with a variety of tools and not quite sure whether they should be trimming, digging or picking up litter. One makes a desultory attempt to start up a work...