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...phone. "The American base is on fire!" he exclaims with a grin. True enough, it is. On the southeast edge of Sadr City, residents watch as flames sputter from the broken windows of a multistory building on a joint American-Iraqi base. A helicopter hovers through the thick black smoke above, airlifting Iraqi police who have been trapped on the roof, as powerful hoses blast the flames with water from below. But this was no product of the Mahdi Army, which has kept to its official "resting" stance. Lieut. Colonel Steven Stover, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, later said...
...there weren't enough going on, it is also quite common to see what looks like smoke in the air. But this is actually fog or mist that comes from the sudden change in pressure...
...Durham, North Carolina, boasts popular alternative bands like Superchunk, not to mention a label, Mammoth Records. Jay Faires, founder of Mammoth, set up shop in the area quite simply because ''there are a lot of 18- to 22-year-olds who don't have much to do, who smoke a lot of pot and who eventually pick up a guitar.'' Record executives are also looking at Halifax, Nova Scotia, a five- college town with dozens of hometown bands, as well as Portland, Oregon -- Gus Van Sant-land and a grunge Mecca in the making. But formulas aren't foolproof...
...Steel plant employed some 14,000 workers. Last month the Homestead mill was placed on ''temporary suspension,'' meaning shutdown. There is 52% unemployment in the Monongahela Valley; the local suicide rate is skyrocketing. Says Veteran Steelworker John Melechenko, 67: ''There's an old saying, When there ain't no smoke, there ain't no work. Now there ain't any smoke and there won't be any.'' Deindustrialization critics argue that some of the hardship could easily be prevented through enlightened protectionism. Barry Bluestone, an economics professor at Boston College and co-author of The Deindustrialization of America, argues...
...feel "queasy and sick." It was the kind of nightmare she had long feared: ValuJet Flight 592 had crashed in the Florida Everglades. A fire had broken out in the cargo hold of the jet, an ancient DC-9 en route to Atlanta from Miami, filling the cabin with smoke and probably asphyxiating the 110 passengers and crew members before they were swallowed by the swamp. Schiavo was disturbed not only because of the scale of the tragedy but also because she knew it might have been averted. Just three months earlier, Schiavo had warned the Federal Aviation Administration about...