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...actually got to look inside a twister on June 21, 1992, when I was fishing at Skagway Reservoir, east of Cripple Creek, Colorado. Around noon, I saw dark skies building to the west, and people smarter than I started leaving. Shortly after 2, a wild cloud formation appeared about half a mile to the west. Great white fingers developed from the left and right and flowed quickly toward a black, horizontally rolling cloud, which lifted to reveal a huge, whirling black vortex coming straight at me. I threw myself to the ground but couldn't help watching. The outside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1996 | 6/10/1996 | See Source »

Patrick Sullivan, who now is the owner of Game Creek Video, says Harvard agreed to host the Patriots on the condition that the Patriots play at the Stadium for one year only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NFL's Boston Patriots Spent A Year in Harvard Stadium | 6/3/1996 | See Source »

...Sugar Creek Elementary is a French-immersion school. An integrated teaching staff of native French speakers recruited from France, Belgium, Canada, Haiti, Egypt and Cameroon keep the children speaking only French, from the Pledge of Allegiance ("Je declare fidelite au drapeau des Etats-Unis...") through recess to the end of the day. The kids even talk out of turn in French. "They're so eager to learn everything, they pick it up like a sponge," says kindergarten teacher Janet Lawrence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF INTEGRATION | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...stopped paying for transportation into the district this year.) Adams or his wife makes a 28-mile round-trip drive twice a day from Blue Springs, a suburb of tidy lawns and two-car garages, so that Sarah can go to second grade and William to third at Sugar Creek. They were drawn by the foreign-language instruction, but Adams, an fbi agent based in Kansas City, sees the social mix itself as an important advantage. "Somewhere on the news one night the word nigger was used," he recalls. "My son asked me what it meant. I thought that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE END OF INTEGRATION | 4/29/1996 | See Source »

...Cuban people or stop efforts from abroad to attain freedom for them. I hope to see the end of Castro's regime. I will not predict the result; history will speak for itself. Unfortunately, too many lives have already paid the price for Castro's rule. ASTERIA PENA Coconut Creek, Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 1, 1996 | 4/1/1996 | See Source »

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