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...their mechanized legions of cars racing along in perfect, synchronized formation, should have fewer accidents and produce less pollution than today's freewheeling freeways. And it may be cheaper to make today's highways smart enough to carry heavier traffic loads than to build new railroads or monorails from scratch...
...beyond Mars and braved the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter and the other outer planets. Indeed, many scientists feared that, in addition to the asteroids, the belt was laden with unseen particles that would collide with and destroy an intruding craft. But Pioneer 10 sailed through with nary a scratch...
...fast. Diane English, the creator of Murphy Brown, was brought in as executive producer, and she scrapped virtually everything but the two stars (who are married to each other) and the basic premise--a divorced couple working together at a New York City newspaper. The show was rebuilt from scratch in just five weeks, starting with a brainstorming session that English convened with a handful of writers on Martha's Vineyard. "I flew in the day after Hurricane Eduoard and flew out the day before Hurricane Hortense hit," she says. "We thought it was very symbolic...
...detonate. An example of this was his repetition of the charge that in the debates four years ago, Clinton did not refer to George Bush as "Mr. President." While perhaps this will end up swinging the votes of millions, it probably did little more than cause people to scratch their heads in befuddlement...
...terrain, but in truth, it was only the match thrown into the tinderbox of accumulated Palestinian fury. For months, Israeli and Palestinian intelligence officials had warned of an impending explosion in the territories. In August, Ali Jirbawi, a political scientist at Bir-Zeit University in the West Bank, said, "Scratch the surface, and you find a state of anger." Palestinians were in despair over the paralysis in the peace process brought on by the election in May of Israel's hard-line Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Still, the ferocity of the convulsion shocked even its forecasters. Said a captain...