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Despite seeing limited action, Gambale was an inspirational spark plug every time she stepped on the field...

Author: By Timothy Jackson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: F. Hockey Muzzles the Huskies, 3-2 | 10/14/1999 | See Source »

...that help was coming and listened to me begging him to shoot me if the gasoline, which was leaking copiously from the crumpled innards of the car, caught fire. Would he have actually done so? I don't know, but luckily for both of us there was no stray spark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Death's Throat | 10/11/1999 | See Source »

...last White House chief of staff: "I'm not looking forward to it, and I don't know anyone who is." Perhaps not accidentally, the very boldness of Morris' device is bringing a flood of attention to the book, 14 anguished years in the making, and will surely spark an initial rush to buy it. Finally, it will rekindle the debate over whether Reagan moved the history of his time or was merely present at its creation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixing Fact and Fiction | 10/4/1999 | See Source »

True to its advertisements, admittedly, The Minus Man does spark at least one conversation, a very terse one: "That movie sucked...

Author: By Nate P. Gray, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Confusion, Not Conversation Follows | 10/1/1999 | See Source »

...incidents that might spark a national panic in the U.S. are unlikely to alter Japan?s pattern of energy use. "The U.S. nuclear industry basically self-destructed under political and economic pressure because it couldn?t run plants safely enough to satisfy the public," says TIME science editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. "But Japan is unlikely to change course because they?re economically dependent on nuclear power. Generally they?ve made it work for them, but nuclear fuel is dangerous and the price of using it is that there will be accidents every now and again." But a government that plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Accidents, Japan Is Unlikely to Nix Nukes | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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