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...overhead hydraulic line ruptured, spilling its volatile fluid onto the floor. Gas burners under the frying vats ignited the vapors and turned the 30,000-sq.-ft. plant into an inferno of flame and thick, yellow smoke. Panicked employees rushed for emergency exits only to find several of them locked. "I thought I was gone, until a man broke the lock off," says Letha Terry, one of the survivors. Twenty-five of Terry's fellow employees were not so lucky. Their bodies were found clustered around the blocked doorways or trapped in the freezer, where the workers had fled...
...competition is constantly taking notes. Some companies offer an automatic transmission, a motorcycle- style gearshift system built into the handgrips. Several firms are preparing variations on Cannondale's new suspension system. Borrowed from motorcycle design, the technology guarantees aging cyclists a smoother ride. Last year Specialized introduced Air Lock, a self-sealing tire that eliminates fear of flats. Still trying to grow fast enough to stay ahead of the big boys, pioneer Sinyard drives his troops with the company slogan "Innovate or Die!" That's a fitting sentiment in an industry whose forebears included Wilbur and Orville Wright...
...Hicks, 18, was hitchhiking when Dahmer, also 18 at the time, took him home, killed him with a barbell and smashed his bones with a hammer. So far, about 100 bone and three tooth fragments have been recovered from the grounds. Investigators plan to test them against a lock of hair and dental records that Hicks' parents provided in the hope of proving a match. In a statement issued last week, the Hicks family said, "We have spent a great deal of time trying to understand the motivation for such a heinous crime and concluded that some acts...
...wait-and-see attitude toward Soviet reform, Baker countered that uncertainty over events in the U.S.S.R. was a reason not to stand pat but to take advantage of changes for the better before there were any changes for the worse. The U.S., he said repeatedly, should move quickly to "lock in" what it likes about what is happening in Soviet policy and politics. In short: deal with Gorbachev while the dealing is good...
...widespread acceptance of their best seller, the Apple IIe, when IBM launched its PC in 1981. While it was bulky, expensive ($2,600, vs. $1,395 for the Apple machine) and difficult to use, the PC was quickly adopted as the industry standard because IBM had a lock on the Big Business market. Apple eventually sold nearly 3 million of its IIe's, mainly for school and home use, but the company was largely shunned by corporations...