Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saranac Lake, N.Y., in the upstate Adirondacks, where tuberculosis patients flocked to take the cure in health resorts--"people with tuberculosis were our industry-like a steel mill or a fabric mill," he says. Mack left just before antibiotics developed during the war crushed the town's economy beyond repair...
...story," he says. "They also have more people to eat because in The Lost World there are more characters--many of whom are eminently deserving of being eaten." The city scenes were shot behind barricades so nosy neighbors wouldn't know what was being filmed. "It looked like road-repair work was going on," says the director...
...stringer in Austin, Texas, has been monitoring the activities of the group that calls itself the Republic of Texas for more than a year, interviewing its enigmatic leader, Rick McLaren, as his group grew more active, establishing, for example, a system of courts (one in an air-conditioning repair shop). When McLaren declared himself at war with the U.S. last week, we naturally turned to Hylton for the inside story. "He's a Pied Piper figure whose rhetoric is so confounding that you're tempted to dismiss him," says Hylton. "But it's evident that McLaren has been able...
...that fall day in 1981. He and two other police officers from Montgomery County, Maryland, were trying to arrest a man strung out on angel dust when the suspect started kicking Ventura in the side and face, again and again and again. It took four operations for doctors to repair Ventura's fractured spine. But the pain never really went away. It was as if someone had forgotten to turn off a switch somewhere deep inside his body...
...Voyager and Grand Voyager and Chrysler Town and Country minivans. This is the latest of several safety investigations for Chrysler's minivan. In 1995, after reports that 37 people had died from being thrown out the back when the lift-gate latches on their minivans opened, Chrysler offered to repair the latches on some 4 million minivans built from 1984 through 1995. The government is also investigating complaints that the seat belts for the bucket seats of 1991-93 Chrysler minivans came unlatched or could not be buckled...