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Word of the miraculous survivals fired up the hopes of some 2,000 relatives and friends of passengers who by now had reached the small town of Fujioka, 35 miles northeast of Mount Osutaka, to await the results of the search. But no one else was found alive...
...necessarily Welch's anymore. We're going back to small artisans. We get foie gras from the Catskills now. Years ago, I crried Stilton, Roquefort, Gorgonzola and Danish blue cheeses. Now I stock about 15 blues, and two are American. I have 20 chèvres, four from the Northeast and two from the West...
Between his professional flowering in the 1880s and his death in 1907, Saint-Gaudens was seen as proof that America could produce art--an ability that, his patrons felt, went hand in hand with the triumph of the industrial Northeast after the Civil War. He gave the crude, grabbing Republic its lessons in symbolic deportment and visual elocution, and won its unstinted gratitude. If there was such a thing as the American Renaissance, then Saint-Gaudens embodied it in sculpture, as surely as the Roeblings did in engineering, Louis Comfort Tiffany in décor or McKim, Mead and White...
Hobeika's army cornered the Phalange units in an area northeast of the capital. Then at dawn Wednesday, Hobeika's chief of staff, Samir Geagea, 32, who opposed the Damascus treaty, threw his tanks and artillery behind Gemayel and launched a counteroffensive against Hobeika. At the end of the day, according to police estimates, 350 people had been killed...
...guys out. They assume that no one with malicious intent will wind up at the controls and thus do not build in fail-safe mechanisms that would prevent a saboteur from engineering a catastrophe. As a result, says Paul Blanch, a nuclear-safety expert who oversaw reactors for Northeast Utilities in Connecticut for 25 years, "a knowledgeable terrorist inside a control room can cause a meltdown in fairly short order...