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...only she can find an escort. Why, here's an amiable native (U Aung Ko). "Hello," he says, in effect, "I'm an illegal guide in a military dictatorship, and I'd like to plop you into a genocidal civil war." "Hello," she virtually replies, "I'm a shell-shocked ninny...
When geologists first visited the mid-ocean range in the late 1970s, they were convinced that it supported the then new theory of plate tectonics. According to this theory, the surface of the earth is not a single, rocky shell but a series of hard "plates," perhaps 80 km thick and up to thousands of kilometers across, floating on a bed of partly molten rock. The mid-ocean ridges, geologists argued, were likely locations for planetary crust to be created: the new plate material would be pushed upward by forces from below before it settled back down to form...
Sandra Bullock has made a career out of playing shy, lonesome characters who break out of their shell in a crisis. In "The Net," as opposed to "Speed" and "While You Were Sleeping," at least she has a job, as a computer-systems analyst. But she still doesn't have a life. Friendless and working at home, she comes into possession of a program that its creators say is an anti-computer virus program but is itself an electronic Ebola. Needless to say, Angela must be deleted before she can delete it. "There are some logical jump cuts...
...more keen. Last Wednesday afternoon about 50 people were on the street in the suburb of Dobrinja. The day was sunny, and many were digging in the makeshift vegetable gardens that Sarajevans have taken to cultivating in whatever scrap of dirt they can find. Suddenly, a Serb shell lanced in, killing six people. "The Serbs always like to catch us at such moments," said Nenad Tupajic, 26, a soldier who was patrolling the Dobrinja line. "That's their way of taking revenge...
...right side of her body. During the weeks of painful recuperation, Poturak sustained herself with a single vision: she wanted to take her young son for a walk in the neighborhood and, without having to be afraid of mortars or snipers, board a tram. When Wednesday's shell sent a piece of shrapnel into her right thigh, Poturak realized that Sarajevo has become a place where wishes as simple as hers are extravagant. Her sentiments are now the despairing antithesis of those expressed by so many Sarajevans only days before. "I don't think our army will ever liberate...