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...terrible scream, as though someone had died. I will never forget it as long as I live. By the time I ran back to see her, another employee said, 'She's already gone.' She just tore out of there." Prater was especially worried about her friend making the 25-mile drive to Jonesboro alone because she was still slowly readjusting to cars: she had suffered a seizure last year and had only recently returned to driving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunter And The Choirboy | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

Fares go up five cents every eighth of a mile? No thanks. We'll just walk. In the snow. Uphill. Both ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Wisdom | 4/3/1998 | See Source »

...initial meter readings increased from $1.00 to $1.50. Rates were hiked from $0.25 to $0.30 per 1/8 mile...

Author: By Renee J. Raphael, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Cambridge Raises Cab Fares | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

...Technology Applications, is testing everything from microbes and chemicals to membrane strainers to remove the ores but says a workable process could be years off. That's too long to wait, warns Fritz Daily, a former Montana legislator who is concerned about an earthquake fault less than a mile from the pit. "If the water ever discharges, it could destroy the entire valley," he says. A growing number of others, Montana Senator Max Baucus among them, seem to agree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Butte, Montana: The Giant Cup Of Poison | 3/30/1998 | See Source »

...knock incoming rocks off their fatal trajectories. Armageddon is about tough guys doing a tough job in space, while Deep Impact (inspired by the '50s films When Worlds Collide and On the Beach) emphasizes the human drama on Earth. This is Hollywood, remember: the real-life asteroid is a mile wide; in Armageddon it's the size of Texas. Says producer Jerry Bruckheimer: "We always do things bigger." And faster; you needn't wait till 2028 for these big bangs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Worlds Collide...It'll Be At The Multiplex | 3/23/1998 | See Source »

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