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...prolonged compared with San Francisco's experience in 1989? Experts give several reasons. Despite its higher intensity and death toll, the Loma Prieta quake inflicted only 10 aftershocks of 3.5 or greater magnitude, compared with more than 150 in L.A. But the main cause is probably L.A.'s "layered" collective trauma. "Previous traumatic experiences have not yet worked themselves out," says psychologist Michael Gellert. "This makes three catastrophes in a year and a half: the riots and their atmosphere of tension perpetuated by the trials, then the fire storms just a couple of months ago, and now the quake...
...addition, Johnston says her family is taking extra precautions to prepare for an uncertain future. "We are putting an extra layer of ice covering on our igloo and we are teaching our polar bear how to attack on the word 'kill,' Johnston says...
...make matters even more clear, the Raincoats traded members with the only all-female punk band that had been around longer than they had, the influential and aggressive Slits; they also covered the Kinks' "Lola," adding another layer of gender confusion to Ray Davies' already mixed-up sexual world. The Raincoats' first record therefore gets attention as a kind of pop-music ecriture feminine, and the articulate Raincoats themselves as the distant foremothers of Bikini Kill...
What the White House group discovered was that the space-station project was a microcosm of all of NASA. The members found that the venture was bogged down with layer upon layer of unnecessary management and lacked centralized decision making. They came to see the nine NASA centers around the country as little fiefdoms, each adding its own complications to projects. There were difficulties with contractors and terrible problems with cost control. In fact, the FBI was -- and still is -- conducting a major investigation into widespread corruption involving NASA and its contractors. Finally, a memo went to the President...
...patrician grain at every opportunity. As a product manager at British Ford in the late 1950s, he made his first mark by taking on the senior engineers to develop its Cortina, which became one of its most successful product introductions ever. Raised in Scotland, the son of a carpet layer and upholsterer and the only non-college graduate to hold the top position, Trotman is better suited and % more polished these days. But he still likes the rough-and-tumble of an honest working-class spat, almost fondly recalling the good brawls in Britain. "The manufacturing guys were terrifying people...