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When rescuers finally fought their way through the fog and the wreckage, they found 83 damaged cars and trucks strung along a half-mile stretch of the Interstate. Thirteen people were killed and 50 hurt in the ill-fated roadway's third -- and worst -- major pileup since 1978. Frightened local motorists and truckers could only wonder: How many next time...
...cleaned and the ashes buried. Opened food must be consumed on the spot. An informal "30-second rule" applies to spilled food: eat it fast. "Smellables" such as soap, toothpaste and tomorrow's rations, all of which can attract bears, are loaded into a burlap bag after dinner and strung over a 20-ft.-high cable. Nighttime hygiene is discouraged; a freshened-up camper in a sleeping bag is yet another smellable. Breakfast is scheduled soon after a groggy, wet dawn so hikers can cover ground before the occasionally terrifying thunderstorms hit. Lightning killed scouts at Philmont...
...bridge to nowhere, unless you consider another safari through Prince's quasi-mystical subconscious a trip worth taking. Shot entirely in Minneapolis, mostly on the sound stage of Prince's $10 million music- and film-production facility, Paisley Park, the film looks like a skein of rock videos strung around a badly frayed plot line. It has something to do with Prince's falling in love with an angel. Also something to do with Prince's playing his music his way and with his vanquishing the forces of musical vandalism...
Instead, some are experiencing a stressful kind of deja vu. They often feel overwhelmed by the emotional, financial and legal hardships of their improvised status as child guardians. In hardscrabble urban areas, where strung-out parents use their welfare checks to buy drugs, grandparents must support young wards on slender fixed incomes. The better-off find themselves pressed too. "Without the kids to take care of, I wouldn't be working as much," says Florence Gilmore, 57, of Long Beach, Calif., who works as a private-duty nurse to support three young grandsons. Nonetheless, Gilmore faced the prospect of bankruptcy...
When it came time for analyzing game films last week, Harvard was in for a pleasant surprise. Princeton's blocking scheme on punts was the same as the Rams--strung out along the line and weak up the middle...