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...July 24 last year, shortly before 9 p.m., a mirror in the Fogle bathroom crashed to the floor, startling Annette. At almost the same instant, millions of gallons of water in an abandoned mine slammed through a thin coal wall and into the working mine, called Quecreek No. 1, where her husband and his eight-man crew were drilling bituminous coal. "It blew hard," he now says. "It was moving fast. Oh, man, it was wicked." Over the next 78 hours, the nine men fled rust-colored torrents through 4-ft.-high tunnels and ended up stranded in a huge...
...Dallas. As general manager for 29 years of the club that became known as America's Team, he hired coach Tom Landry and went on to 20 consecutive winning seasons and two Super Bowl victories. The first executive inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, he championed the instant replay and was instrumental in the 1966 merger of the American and National football leagues...
Among co-workers, he's known as the king of instant messaging. Of the hundreds of employees Kordestani oversees globally, he personally reviews each hire, making sure it passes his airport test: "If I'm stuck in an airport with one of these employees, I want to enjoy my time and have an intelligent conversation...
...only for an instant. Soon, the “Mission: Impossible” theme cleaves the silence once more and the two black-clad figures who appeared earlier begin throwing toilet-paper streamers from the balcony...
...collectors throughout Asia. "Tan Swie Hian is Singapore's most prolific artist in terms of the range of media he works in?from literature, calligraphy, painting, sculpture, performance to design," says Kwok Kian Chow, director of the Singapore Art Museum. Tan recently showcased the diversity of his talents in Instant Is a Millennium, the opening gala performance of the recent Singapore Arts Festival. The project took Tan two years to develop, during which he directed musicians, set designers, seamstresses and interpreters. During the show, a montage of Tan's vibrantly colorful paintings was projected onto a video screen while...