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Minutes after the alleged assault, a female witness reported the crime and said the perpetrator had proceeded to smash her car's windshield...

Author: By Anne M. Stiles, | Title: Homeless Man Assaulted Near Peabody Terrace | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

...wind races toward the edges of the solar system, it smashes into the magnetosphere, a long, teardrop-shaped region of space that marks the boundaries of the earth's magnetic field. The magnetosphere protects the earth by deflecting most of the solar wind around the planet the way a windshield deflects air around a car. Still, untold trillions of charged particles manage to leak through. Some are trapped to form the Van Allen radiation belts that surround the earth. Others spiral down the magnetic field lines that project from the North and South poles. Energy unleashed by this disturbance excites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COSMIC STORMS COMING | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

...windshield and back window were shot out, the witnesses said. Police are searching for a gray Peugeot 505 that fled the scene, the Lagos state police command said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nigerian Senior's Mother Killed | 6/5/1996 | See Source »

...were charged with the task of placing Turtles--canisters weighted with lead and packed with temperature and pressure gauges--in the path of an oncoming tornado. As it turned out, the twister swerved and missed the Turtles. But the softball-size hailstones that followed found their mark--smashing a windshield and a rear window. Another time, Davies-Jones' partner, concentrating on a tornado that had just been sighted, slammed into a drainage ditch at 30 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERIES OF TWISTERS | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

...know a movie is in trouble when a cow provides its only moment of authentic human interest. In Twister, as a team of meteorologists races toward a tornado, a terrified Holstein, mooing madly, blows by their windshield, then blows back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOX-OFFICE BLOWHARD | 5/20/1996 | See Source »

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