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...much for the legal wranglings. What does the tape offer? For the most part, relatively mild stuff: Pam and Tommy fishing, camping, gardening and cooing newlywed niceties to each other. O.K., there's also plenty of camera time for the pair's respective endowments and several minutes of hard-core sex in inspired locations like California's Highway 15. The IEG tape enhances these moments with slow-motion replays and a pornish sound track. At least a few viewers, including Seth Warshasky, the head of IEG, think the Lees staged the whole thing. "It's a publicity stunt," he says...
Last week United Airlines Flight 826 from Tokyo experienced this special brand of aviation hell, leading to 83 injuries and one death. Though life-threatening turbulence happens far less often than the mild rumbles most flyers experience, it is still all too common. On average, 17 U.S.-based planes get slapped around enough to cause injuries each year; between 1980 and 1995, 129 people were seriously hurt, two fatally...
...planes scan the sky for agitated particles in the air characteristic of CAT. NASA plans to test the device next spring but does not know when it will be operational. In the meantime, the FAA is improving the pilot reporting system by equipping planes with software that measures even mild turbulence and flashes data to the ground, where computers collate the information and beam it back up to all planes in the area...
...hole wasn't big enough, Harvard was dealt another setback seconds into the second stanza. Junior Craig Adams, who had scored at least one goal in the Crimson's previous three games, took a brutal hit into the boards. The impact knocked his helmet to the ice and a mild concussion, 10 stitches to the forehead and a tender shoulder forced Adams to sit out the rest of the tournament...
...recent transformation in the public mind. Back in 1994, when he was engineering a series of interest-rate increases, the Federal Reserve chairman was regularly assailed as a zealot willing to strangle economic growth in pursuit of a chimerical goal of zero inflation. Today those jeers have melted to mild sarcasm. ALL HAIL SAINT ALAN, read buttons distributed by Bert Ely, an economic consultant who contends Greenspan is getting undeserved credit for the happy state of the U.S. economy. But to admirers, Greenspan is a monetary wizard. Says economist Allen Sinai: "The Greenspan Fed is the all-time champion...