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...world's largest airliner smashes into a mountain, there is no escape, except for the very few--four this time--favored by the whims of fate. That was tragically clear last week as the helicopters carried body after body, wrapped in bright blankets, down from the smoldering wreckage on Mount Osutaka. --By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Yukinori Ishikawa/Fujioka and Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...Guatemalan army had fought aggressively and cut the insurgents' strength from 9,000 to 3,000 armed men. But since then, coordination between four once disparate left-wing guerrilla groups has improved following the creation of a coalition known as the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity. The rebels mount sporadic urban terrorist attacks but operate mainly in border areas where military control is tenuous...
...third novel, I Been There Before, Carkeet's puckish fantasy finds Mark Twain, who was born during the 1835 appearance of Halley's comet and who died during its return in 1910, brought back to life once more by the comet's visit in 1985. From there the implausibilities mount. Twain engages in time travel. When events do not turn out as he likes, he causes whole swatches of his life to reoccur. His daughter Susy, who died in 1896, appears at a press conference as a ghost in early 1986. A character purporting to be God shows...
Some say that the American short story is back in style because television has reduced our attention spans. Others argue that the return of the literary sprint began as a marketing strategy: publishers could reissue old collections by brand name writers much as art museums mount retrospectives. Perhaps, but there may be a simpler explanation. The short story does what many so-called serious new novels rarely do: it tells a story...
...familiar sight to California visitors for more than 60 years has been those big letters. Nestled among the slopes of Mount Lee, the 50-foot-tall Hollywood sign has become a Los Angeles landmark. Now the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce wants to have that sign, along with the Hollywood Walk of Fame and Hollywood Christmas Parade, protected as a trademark. The association claims exclusive licensing rights to any and all products bearing the name Hollywood that are either made or sold in California...