Word: slights
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...memory of the final moments before the crash. Following his second interrogation last week, the former paratrooper was helicoptered back to Britain to continue his convalescence in London. French investigators may go there to question him again in a couple of weeks. But experts say there is only a slight chance that he will regain his memory of the critical instants. In the absence of his firsthand account, investigators can only sort through the physical evidence and more than 1,000 pages of testimony, much of it contradictory, to seek the precise cause of the accident. Based on interviews with...
Yauch himself is remarkably slight and soft-spoken, given the aggressiveness of his group's punk-rap music but then since he began practicing Tibetan Buddhism, the group spits into the crowd a lot less. Yauch, brought up secularly by a Jewish father and Catholic mother, first meditated after attending teachings by the Dalai Lama in India in 1992. "It felt logical to me," he explains. "Real, not hokey." He spends anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours a day in cross-legged contemplation. Back braced against the wall--a flaw in technique, he'll admit--he repeats short prayers...
...office manager Carol Muir wants a speed limit of 75 or 80, but bartender Bob Maronick says, "I don't want to have to look at my speedometer all the time." In the cause of investigative reporting, Muir leads a three-saloon tour, and this scientific survey gives a slight edge to speed limits. A Great Falls Tribune survey found 64% in favor of a speed limit but only 50% in favor of bothering with a special session of the state legislature to get it done in January...
...members. The Kelley Deal 6000 is the first outfit for which Deal has written songs, and she considers herself a newcomer to the art. She characterizes her move into song writing as "a natural progression from playing Hank Williams and Elvis Costello covers with Kim." One can hear the slight gesture to country on a tune like "When He Calls Me Kitten," which on the CD features a plaintive slide guitar...
...care experts have championed various kinds of satellite broadcasts, which can cost $2,000 an hour, for long-distance learning. But the Kansans' choice--compressed video-- costs just $30 an hour. Its quality is almost as good as satellite TV, enabling students and teachers to interact with only a slight, almost imperceptible lag. And since transmission occurs over telephone lines, the cost of adding on to the network is relatively...