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EAST MORICHES, N.Y.: The voice recorder tapes from the doomed TWA Flight 800 cut off 12 minutes into the trip with an unusual noise lasting a mere fraction of a second, but authorities hope that sound will explain what caused the plane to explode into a fiery ball last week. James Kallstrom, assistant FBI director, told reporters Thursday that "we know there was a catastrophic explosion; it was caused by some kind of a bomb, obviously. We're not further describing how that would be, whether it was carried on whether something hit the plane from outside and caused...
...guitar? If you've seen Tom Cruise hurled from an exploding helicopter onto a moving train, is it really that thrilling to see a bassist jump from the top of a three-foot amp? If you've just seen a twister tear apart a town, doesn't a mere mosh pit lose some of its anarchic...
...swooning crowd swells to more than 40,000, all straining to catch a glimpse--maybe a word, even an autograph!--of one of the celebrities scheduled to appear. A country-music concert at the fabled Ryman Auditorium? Hardly. They are far too cool in Nashville to get excited about mere music legends. No, this is the opening of a restaurant...
...amusement park, diner, souvenir stand and museum, have become the fastest-growing segment of the restaurant industry, turning up the heat on fast feeders such as McDonald's and the segment known as casual dining, which includes such now ho-hum fern joints as Bennigan's that serve mere food and drink in a relaxed setting. This heady expansion leads to projections that eatertainment will be a $5 billion baby by the turn of the century--assuming the theme dreamers continue to titillate a fickle been-there, done-that public...
...even chew the fat. The mere taste of FATTY FOOD--even if it isn't swallowed--promotes a surge in the concentration of fat in the blood. One explanation: receptors in the mouth may detect the chemical properties of food and cause the body to react...