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Holyoke Center's eighth floor smoking room closed, making the mammoth administration building smoke-free. The decision came after consultation with those who work in the building, and was made out of concern for air quality, officials said...
...exception: the death toll, 26 late last week, was only a hair above the 23 killed by the mammoth flood of 1973 in many of the same areas, and only a tenth of the 250 who perished in the 1937 flood -- to say nothing of the record 2,100 drowned on the single day of May 31, 1889, in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Main reasons: abundant warnings, evacuation plans well worked out in advance, the lack of flash floods and above all the fact that over the years most population centers have been protected by levees and dams built high and strong...
...actually a type of dolphin) that the company found in a seaquarium in Mexico City. But frequently Keiko is spelled by a stunt double: a high-tech robot coated with 3,000 lbs. of eurythane rubber. (There is also a Turbo Willy - -- essentially the top of the whale, with mammoth hydraulic propellers on the bottom.) How real were the fake Willys? Persuasive enough so that the real Willy got the hots for them. "Whales are well-endowed animals," notes Walt Conti, the effects magician who created the seductive stand-ins. "It's pretty obvious he was attracted...
Since Buster Keaton's Sherlock, Jr. in 1924, Hollywood has often toyed with the looking-glass motif, though never on Hero's mammoth scale, where so many cars crash that the audience becomes rubberneckers. Schwarzenegger, a live- action cartoon in the flesh, and McTiernan, who made the brains explode on time in Die Hard, might seem just the team to send up the dizzy conventions of the action genre. At first they do so, smartly. A wounded cop mutters, "Two days to retirement," and promptly dies. And Arnold's version of Hamlet is even funnier than Mel Gibson...
Wednesday's game against Massachusetts at Soldiers Field also featured a mammoth Harvard comeback--eight runs in the final two innings, but once again the opposition won in the next inning on a Harvard miscue...