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...veterans of untold small tremors and countless mock drills, Californians have long been convinced they were psychologically ready for a big quake. Last week that comforting belief was demolished. "I'm scared," confesses Sarah Ford, 43, who with her three-year-old daughter found temporary shelter at an Oakland high school. "I need a stress pill. When I walk, I'm like tipping. I'm looking to see if anything moves...
...part, boosted the new fad by encouraging designers to play with the unreal thing in their lines. Designer Christian Lacroix's fringed panther-print polymid shawl ($470) is hot stuff. Patrick Kelly has scored with skinny dresses in leopard stretch velvet ($340), and even purist Giorgio Armani uses mock lynx for a duffle coat in the Emporio Armani line ($685). After dark, the more the merrier seems to be the rule. Says Annie Allanche, a manager at Paris' Irie boutique: "Women are mixing leopard, tiger, giraffe and ocelot for evening...
...stick could be a United Nations environmental police force deployed around the world to guard the planet's most precious natural resources. That is the vision put forward by Austrian Foreign Minister Alois Mock in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly. Mock points out that the growing body of international law governing use of the atmosphere, the oceans, the North and South Poles and other "global commons" will require new enforcement mechanisms to give it teeth. "Just as we have become accustomed to the Blue Helmets ((of the U.N. security forces)) in peacekeeping operations," he said, "we hope that...
...skit. "The parody aspects of it are overwhelming," Keith admits. "It'll kill the music, you know?" Watching the Stones take their chances with all this -- for revenue, for glory and for something more -- has become a new part of the show. They could become what they used to mock...
...years, Britons have been regaled with mock letters like this from Denis Thatcher, the husband of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, to his mythical chum Bill in the satirical London magazine Private Eye. The pungent missives are all the more outrageous as they seem to capture Denis' views and ripe turn of phrase with uncanny accuracy...