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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Last week, for the first time, a Chilean judge cut through the veil of fear Pinochet had draped over his country and charged the general with kidnapping. These charges, of course, are only a handful of the more than 100 criminal complaints against Pinochet pending in the Chilean legal system. But they'll do: The case concerns the notorious "caravan of death" in 1973, when a group of senior military officers murdered some 73 political prisoners in the weeks that followed Pinochet's military coup...
This difficult life requires obstinacy. There are no stores for shopping. The settlers must travel the roads outside their homes in high-speed convoys, for fear of snipers. Last week the army uprooted crops for 50 yds. on either side of the road and cut down palms on the median strip. But few doubt that the snipers are even now looking for new roosts. Perhaps most stressful is the fact that life is filled with the tension and rage bred by living among people who hate your presence. Zweig's family lives in a small mobile home, and although...
...always runs over many years, so we limited our list of candidates to products that have become available to their ultimate users during the calendar year 2000. Many of these were granted patents several or more years ago. Some fascinating products that are already demonstrably successful nonetheless missed the cut because they won't reach consumers until early 2001. Because the yield from our survey was far more than these three inventions, we are including a gallery featuring dozens of other products, devices and ideas. Some are serious in their impact; some are just fun. Most are available...
Shannon Mahaffey's experience is a case in point. He was living in Sweetwater, on the flat Texas plains that spawn tornadoes during the spring storm season. Often he would stay up nights watching the horizon as twisters cut deadly swaths nearby. Twice, he says, they touched down on his property, tearing up fences and farm equipment, though luckily missing his house. One night, while waiting up in a storm-induced blackout, he wondered whether there was a better way to warn people that a twister was forming: "I knew that the one thing that always worked in the disasters...
Saudi Arabia doesn't like Saddam Hussein. And besides, there's money to be made pumping more oil at current prices. That meant good news Monday for Western consumers, as Iraq was forced to back off from its threat to cut its oil output and reopen the taps it closed last Friday. Baghdad was left little choice after the Saudis undertook to fill the shortfall left on world markets by the withdrawal of Iraq's daily output of 2.5 million barrels, thereby nullifying the impact of Saddam's latest gambit. Iraq had hoped that by raising pressure on the world...