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...Patricia Spier was heading home from a mountaintop picnic in Indonesia's eastern province of Papua when the ambush began. Out of nowhere, a hail of automatic-weapon fire perforated the two Toyota Land Cruisers in which the American schoolteacher and a group of her colleagues and husband were traveling in. "I was shot in the back and fell to the floor," Spier recalls. "The attackers kept shooting and shooting for about 45 minutes ... it felt like thousands of bullets and pieces of shrapnel [were] ripping through the vehicle... People were screaming." By the time the gunfire stopped, three people...
...work in Chicago. Lesser possibilities for nominations include White Oleander’s Michelle Pfeiffer, Gangs of New York’s Cameron Diaz, Igby Goes Down’s Susan Sarandon, About a Boy’s Toni Collette and Far From Heaven’s Patricia Clarkson. —Benjamin L. Soskin
Neoprene leaves the factory as little chips in 50-lb. bags, but depending on the resins it's mixed with, it can be made thick or thin or can be "foamed" with tiny air bubbles. So the possible shapes and silhouettes are endless. Patricia Fields, stylist for TV's Sex and the City, thinks that like down, neoprene ultimately will be prized for its ability to insulate and will be used for shoes and leg warmers. Another advantage: sheets of neoprene don't have to be stitched together but can easily be glued with adhesives made from--you guessed...
...fall night in 2000, a dean at Governors State University (GSU) decided to stop the presses. After GSU’s student newspaper The Innovator published a series of articles critical of the administration, Dean Patricia A. Carter placed a call to the printer and ordered him not to print any copies of the paper unless she or another administrator reviewed...
...career choice--compared with 15% of boys. Those are among the findings of "Teen Girls on Business: Are They Being Empowered," a recent survey sponsored by Simmons School of Management in Boston, which specializes in training women M.B.A.s, and the Committee of 200, an organization of women business leaders. Patricia O'Brien, president of Simmons College, says the survey explains why women make up 50% of the nation's law and medical students but only 30% of its business students. "Girls have a stronger desire to help people than to make money, and it's invisible to them that business...