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There was almost no warning last week before a giant C-130 transport plane of the Kentucky Air National Guard plummeted into a restaurant and motel in Evansville, Ind., and then exploded in a giant fireball. Sixteen people were killed in the crash, including the five crewmen aboard the plane, two workers at JoJo's restaurant, and nine people at the adjacent Drury Inn motel, all of them employees of a plumbing-supply company, who were gathered in a fourth- floor conference room...
Everywhere you look around the Nordic Empress, people like Ted LaTour are defying the dismal economic news back home. Across the teak sun deck, Nancy and Bruce Brentlinger of Terre Haute, Ind., are sipping their own Bahama Mamas and playing cards. Down on Deck 4, Tim and Ann Swan of San Antonio are dressing for the '50s rock-'n'-roll night. On Deck 5, Liz Scheetz from Chapel Hill, N.C., is slamming quarters into a Dynamite Jackpot slot machine, while around the corner in the Carousel Pub Mary Ann Brower of Pleasantville, N.J., is celebrating with a bottle of Freixenet...
...investments rapidly shrink away. A six-month bank CD that paid 8% interest a year ago now yields just 4.9%. "People are turning off their phones for a month to get by," laments Irene Farr, 73, a retired clerical worker who lives in a senior community in South Bend, Ind. "They just have no way to live. It's a dignified form of destitution." Moreover, the low rates that have caused such pain have so far failed to pull the economy out of its slump...
Educators around the country positively gush about the series. "I'm teaching a lot more geography and problem solving," says Jon Bennett, a fourth-grade teacher in Blusston, Ind., who uses the Carmen computer games in his class. "Kids have a reason for finding out where the Golden Gate Bridge is. They love Carmen, and they don't realize they're learning." But maybe, just maybe, they...
...Wabash, Ind., Janice Bone lost her job as an assistant payroll clerk at the Ford Meter Box Co. The reason? The firm, which will not let its employees smoke either on the job or at home, insisted that she take a urine test, which proved positive for nicotine...