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...opponents, all veterans of previous races, include Afro-dude Machine Gun Joe (Tyrese Gibson), the neo-Nazi Pachenko (Max Ryan), an ex-NASCAR, now NAStyCAR driver named Travis (Justin Mader) and the martial-artistic 14K (Robin Shou). When they're not playing bumper cars, they're taunting one another or spitting in a rival's food - animals marking their turf. Each driver is given a navigator, a babe on loan from a nearby women's prison, and Ames's is Case (Natalie Martinez), who has pneumatic skills of her own. Sitting next to him in their two-seater Ford Mustang...
When Nevado del Ruiz, the Colombian volcano, blew up last week after 400 years of dormancy, the news did not take long to reach B. William Mader, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join...
...Mader, who coordinates TIME's foreign coverage, is an expert at getting reporters in and out of hot spots. In the past five years he has staffed situations as formidable as the Falklands war, the invasion of Lebanon and the hijacking of the Achille Lauro. Says Mader, a veteran State Department and European correspondent: "Although the initial indications were that only 40 or 50 people were dead in Colombia, I sensed a potential calamity and a major story, possibly even a crash cover...
...Mader's instincts were on target. On Friday morning, Managing Editor Jason McManus decided to put the Colombian disaster on the magazine's cover. World Senior Editor Henry Muller quickly mustered a team of editors, writers and reporter-researchers to deal with the mass of information. Says Muller: "Each hour we got a better idea of the extent of the tragedy. We tore up the World section and changed the whole direction of the week's effort...
...mundane fact that five holidays will fall on weekends in 2004, meaning Germany will have more work days than this year. But what's clear is that consumers in Germany and elsewhere are leading this recovery, not the traditional manufacturing industries. That's good news for managers like Frank Mader, of Glashütte Döbern, whose fate is in the hands of shoppers from Paris to Beijing...