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Final stop is Continental Toyota, where a slick, streamlined Celica has been waiting to capture Heather's heart. She jumps into a white $14,600 hardtop and opens the sun roof, declaring, "This is so cute!" The floor model has a stick shift; instantly Heather insists, "I could learn manual shifting." She would drive it out the door right now if she could. Julie says, "I don't think there's even a comparison" with the Calais or the Sunbird...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Is So Cute! | 5/13/1991 | See Source »

Despite the change, R. Philip Dowds of Cambridge Citizens for Liveable Neighborhoods (CCLN) accuses the Inn's architects of "using every trick in the zoning book to get every single inch of size out of it." He says the architects have used ruses such as creating a fake roof line and raising dirt around the edge of the construction site to make the building seem smaller...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond Beauty: Are the Buildings Too Big? | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

Clancy says that he wanted the building to have as much variety as possible in order to achieve a "residential feel." He says that has been accomplished through the use of dormer windows on the roof and bay windows on the face of the building...

Author: By Michael E. Balagur, | Title: Masterpieces or Misfits | 5/8/1991 | See Source »

...knowing that their small Ukrainian town was dying that morning as they gazed at the ruddy glow over Chernobyl reactor No. 4 some 2 1/2 miles away. It was a bright spring Saturday, April 26, 1986. A townsman came in from sunning himself on a roof, exclaiming that he had never seen anything like it, he had turned brown in no time at all. He had what would later be known as a nuclear tan. A few hours afterward, the man was taken away in an ambulance, convulsed with uncontrollable vomiting. Soon many of his neighbors were coughing, throwing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chernobyl: Who Knows How Many Will Die? | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

During the night, in the worst nuclear power disaster ever, a catastrophic series of explosions had shattered the reactor, blowing the roof off the containment chamber. Firemen had extinguished the initial fire but could not quench the combustion of the molten core that was now spewing 50 tons of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere. Despite the lush beauty of the springtime scene, everything for miles around was drenched with lethal radiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chernobyl: Who Knows How Many Will Die? | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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