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...blue metallic Jetta pulls along side, you count it--twenty-eight. You've seen the driver on the other evenings, she looks strikingly like a young man--big, with dark, almost red hair clipped tight around her head. Her clear fingernails move slowly, like gears, on the black steering wheel. She watches you, expressionless, for a long second, then deliberately opens her mouth and circles her lips with the wet tip of her tongue. You look away, then back Suddenly her lane moves ahead--two, three, four cars go by. You roll down the window and stick your head...
...inaugurating a new agricultural reform project last week at the village of Cipreses outside San José. He was in the midst of his speech when the ground began to shake. In a matter of minutes, the earthquake was over and Monge finished his remarks. Afterward, climbing behind the wheel of a white Landcruiser, he smiled and cracked, "I speak and the earth moves, yet my opponents say I lack charisma...
...needed," Randolph says, adding that Harvard's policy is to keep disabled students in the mainstream and make sure they are not isolated from undergraduate life. Last year, the University, after an apparent oversight, added special ramps and seating to Harvard Stadium and this summer is making Leverett House wheel chair-accessible...
Other CDC experts work with Immigration and Naturalization Service officials to prevent exotic diseases from entering the country. Laboratory Director Joseph McCormick, who studied Lassa fever in Sierra Leone, sped to the Atlanta airport in a four-wheel-drive vehicle during a snowstorm last January to pick up a mysteriously ailing passenger from Nigeria. The man was placed in an isolation room until it was certain he was not suffering from one of the deadly viruses...
Like all of these shows, E.T. is a part of the phenomenon it covers, another wheel in the publicity machine it seeks to explain. Many of its features perpetuate rather than puncture Hollywood myths. Notes a senior segment producer, Helaine Swerdloff: "There is a fine line between hype and news." The question for E.T. is which side of that line it will settle...