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...museum is like the city -- stylish but not quite trendy, unpretentiously cosmopolitan. Seattle seems to agree. On the day the first part of the museum opened to the public in December, there was a line around the block until closing time at 9 p.m., despite a rainstorm. "When people don't like it," Venturi says unconvincingly, "it doesn't bother me too much. On the other hand, I find that I do love it when people like the building." He may be the most influential American architect of the late 20th century, but in the end, like Sally Field...
Amtrak's Miami-New York Silver Star was barreling through a predawn rainstorm at 77 m.p.h. when the last six cars suddenly jumped the tracks and slammed into two freight cars parked on a siding. While none of the passenger cars turned over, 25 ft. of the Silver Star's stainless-steel skin was peeled back, ripping out seats and killing five men and two women. "Glass and metal were flying in," said Dave Elmers, a passenger from West Palm Beach, Fla. "It just opened up that train like a sardine can." Said Steven Clark, a passenger from Philadelphia...
...State Department, whom he derides as "guys with last names for first names." He tells corny jokes and Russian jokes. And he is relentlessly practical in a way that sometimes amuses his friends. While driving down Constitution Avenue in a convertible, for example, Gates was caught in a rainstorm but couldn't get the top up. Unfazed, he unfurled his umbrella and kept driving...
Prompting the action was a mid-March accident in Florida that killed a family of four when their Malibu fell apart during a rainstorm. The FAA has not determined the cause of the accident and is still investigating the six similar mishaps, but says it has found evidence of "gross" excess strain on the wings of the aircraft that crashed. The manufacturer attributes the accidents to "pilot error and pilot inexperience" in adverse weather at speeds greater than the planes were designed to handle...
Time is short. The gulf war forged new alliances, shattered old ideas and forced a reconsideration of dug-in positions, giving peace at least a slim chance in the Middle East. But the new climate may not last much longer than a desert rainstorm; old habits, ways of thinking and alignments could quickly reassert themselves. So, to use a much overworked but appropriate metaphor, all parties interested in an Arab-Israeli peace process must scramble through the window of opportunity before it bangs shut...