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...female accusers, by contrast, have raised only $25,000. Angry consumers then threatened to stop doing business with the offending companies. As those companies, MCI, Eli Lilly and Seagram among them, scrambled to offer justifications, it seemed unlikely that many new donors would wade into Packwood's swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Way Out | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...date was Nov. 14, 1493. A 370-hectare enclave on this island's north shore, the Salt River Bay National Historical Park and Ecological Preserve has the largest remaining mangrove forest in the Virgin Islands. The park harbors a wide variety of endangered flora and fauna, including giant swamp ferns and bottle-nosed dolphins, and includes an underwater canyon filled with coral reefs, caves and grottoes, open to scuba divers. Camping is not allowed on park grounds, but travelers can stay at hotels in the nearby town of Christiansted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Traveler's Advisory | 11/29/1993 | See Source »

...pensively): Ah, yes. "Jurassic Park: The Rock Opera." I like the way that sounds. It conjures up images of majestic beasts long extinct reappearing to tread the primordial swamp, but with one important distinction: this time they've got rhythm...

Author: By Erica L. Werner, | Title: Rapturous 'Raptors | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...know the story of how the Clampett clan, after discovering oil in the middle of their Ozark swamp, signs a billion dollar deal and moves to Beverly Hills. Jed Clampett, played by Jim Varney of dubious "Ernest Goes to Camp" fame, decides his daughter, Elly May (Erika Eleniak), who spends her spare time wrestling bears, needs some refinement. So he takes her, Cousin Jethro, and Grannie to Beverly Hills to find a wife who will be a mother to Elly May. Oh, the daring...

Author: By Jeannette A. Vargas, | Title: Head for the Hills | 10/21/1993 | See Source »

...lead locomotive, buried in 15 feet of mud. Miraculously, some passengers managed to escape even from a car totally submerged in the bayou. Bill Crosson, 57, had grabbed his wife Vivian, 52, holding her down so she wouldn't be thrown about as the train fell into the swamp. Water then came rushing in. "It just filled so quickly," he says. "All I could think about was 'we're goners.' " But the couple found an air pocket that gave them time enough to find an escape route. The Crossons had felt others around them "pushing and pulling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death By Fire and Water | 10/4/1993 | See Source »

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