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Poonsters are more than happy to return Gewanter's 'praise' in kind. With typical eloquence, they describe their mentor as follows: "Gewanter is a force of nature--merciless as a desert wind, yet nurturing as a mountain stream...
...spoken of the grit and tenacity with which Californians had overcome one destructive force after another. The venue for the gubernatorial address had been changed from outdoors to indoors because of the weather; meanwhile the true deluge was moving toward California on the wings of a 200-m.p.h. jet stream. Normally, a high-pressure dome off the coast deflects such activity, guarding the state's reputation for temperate days. But the dome dissipated, explains the National Weather Service, and with it went the region's shelter from the storm. That old devil El Nino, the condition that sends warmth...
...those who want their information delivered in a trickle, rather than in a stream, consider Motorola's Sports Trax, a pager that feels like a cross between a radio and the sports page of a daily newspaper. Pick your favorite baseball team, and the clever pager "trax" it like a die-hard fan, transmitting pitch-by-pitch updates of every game and displaying the action on a calculator-like screen in real time all season long -- if there ever is another season...
...Fugui and Cheungsheng search for their adopted Nationalist Army, they hear something in the distance. It builds into a roar, and their fear is tangible, Suddenly, tens of thousands of communist soldiers storm down the hill after them. Fugui and Chungsheng run, but it is futile. Like a stream of lava overtaking them, Mao's forces surround Fugui and Cheungsheng. This scene immediately distinguishes "To Live" from any other film in recent memory. It is the work of a craftsman with a lot of money to spend. It is the stuff that makes movies larger than life...
...harshest attack yet on the Chechen capital, Grozny, showering the city with artillery and rockets. Scattered groups of haggard Chechen fighters resisted the onslaught, but many retreated house by house as Russian soldiers claimed block after block of territory. Members of President Dzhokhar Dudayev's government reportedly joined the stream of refugees, though successive Russian air raids failed to dislodge rebels from the surrounding Caucasian mountains. Even a swift victory may be too little, too late to rally international opinion to Russian President Boris Yeltsin's defense: TIME State Department correspondent J.F.O. McAllister says Clinton Administration officials have actually been...