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Spawned by a violent storm that stretched from Canada to Texas, a pack of killer tornadoes rolled from Wisconsin to New York last Friday, leaving hundreds injured and at least 86 dead, 60 of them in Pennsylvania. The twister knocked out power lines and flattened scores of houses and small factories. In some places, the winds were accompanied by hailstones the size of golf balls. It was the worst tornado disaster since 1974, when a rogue storm ravaged the South and Midwest and took 315 lives...
...woodpile. To his fans, though, he is a modern David, a champion of the little guy who takes on the Goliaths of Big Oil and more often than not gives them a costly whupping. Whichever image he evokes, T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens, 56, has swept up like a twister out of Amarillo, Texas, to become one of the most famous and controversial businessmen in the U.S. today...
...movies go, tornados haven't been this popular since "The Wizard of Oz." Back then, though, the twister was simply a modern-day deux ex machine-a simple, foot-proof way of getting Dorothy from Kansas to Oz with no questions asked. The current cinematic trend, seen in Places in the Heart and now in Jessica Lange's new film Country, has taken upon itself the unenviable task of giving Meaning to the once familiar and unportentuous storm. While the tradition of literary storms, from King Lear to Moby Dick, is a valid one, in a less subtle medium like...
...drug is given a generic name by a unit of the American Medical Association. That name reflects the drug's chemical properties and is often a tongue twister. The company marketing the medication usually gives it a short, snappy brand name that doctors and patients can remember. Hoffmann-La Roche, for example, developed a tranquilizer with the generic name chlordiazepoxide, but sells it as Librium...
...twister was one of 49 that spun off from a storm system that swept across the Midwest last Thursday night. At least 16 people died and hundreds were injured. "In my 25 years here, I don't remember a storm that has been so widespread," said Wayne Ellingson of the National Weather Service in Des Moines...