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...Zealand schoolteacher Beverley Nisbet, summoning a remarkable presence of mind, unleashed her camera and snapped photos of her fellow passengers as they crouched and prepared for the worst. Remembers Roger White, who was ) seated in Row 18, not far from the business-class section: "The walls seemed to be popping in on everybody. I kind of got resigned to the fact that I was going to die. I put my head down and told my wife I loved her. She told me she loved me." Said Jack Kennedy: "I thought everything was going up pretty quickly, I tell...
...longtime editor who backed him for more than a decade in order to get a contract of roughly $1 million has now got a $1 million contract on his head. And in the same breath as he became a household name, Rushdie has become a missing person. Almost worst of all, for a writer, his work of the imagination -- and an exceptionally complex work of an uncommonly fertile imagination -- is now being treated as if it were a heretic's pamphlet; The Satanic Verses has been turned from a book into a talking point. With the drama bringing more...
...everyone believes that pesticides are as serious a threat as the NRDC claims. Professor Bruce Ames, head of the biochemistry department at the University of California, Berkeley, labels the NRDC's alarms "wild." Says he: "They are piling one worst-case scenario on top of another." Moreover, Ames points out, plants produce their own poisons to ward off pests. "The proportion of positive cancer tests is about as high for natural pesticides as for synthetic pesticides, and we are eating 10,000 times more of the natural ones," he notes. The NRDC insists that its risk estimates are conservative. They...
CARACAS, Venezuela--In riots touched off by bus fare increases, Venezuelans sacked hundreds of stores, set vehicles ablaze and traded gunfire with police in the country's worst street violence in 30 years...
Perhaps the worst violence occurred in Guarenas, a shantytown about 12 miles from the capital where the disturbances began. People there formed human chains and threw rocks at National Guard troops in armored cars after the soldiers began firing birdshot and tear gas at looters...