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...SOMEWHERE IN THE UNIVERSE THERE IS A HELL FOR journalists, it probably resembles the current condition of NBC News. Last month Dateline NBC stars Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips delivered a stunning on-air apology for its report on the safety of GM trucks, which showed a pickup catching fire in a test crash but did not reveal that incendiary devices had been attached to the vehicle to help ensure a blaze. A week later, anchor Tom Brokaw expressed his regrets for several aspects of a Nightly News report about environmental abuses on an Idaho river. It featured footage...
GENERAL MOTORS DENIED THAT ITS SIDESADDLE gas tanks caused the death of Shannon Moseley, a 17-year-old killed when his 1985-model GMC pickup exploded three years ago. As it has in some 100 similar cases, GM called the driver the culprit...
...also a dedicated shutterbug obsessed with documenting the everyday life of Donna and her two brothers. Donna's early photographs reflected that peaceful, loving experience, as she concentrated on recording ) the gentle moments of private lives -- Parisians buying loaves of bread, Colorado cowboys and their dogs tooling around in pickup trucks. "I've always been attracted to the good things in people," says Ferrato, 43, "the funny, the quirky and most of all the love...
...forcing American commanders to tighten the rules on confiscating Somali weapons. Until now, the troops have seized arms displayed openly and with hostile intent. Now the U.S. military is promising to take a more aggressive role in ridding Somalia of the heavier weapons and the "technicals" -- gun-equipped pickup trucks -- that have terrified the populace for the past two years. "Heavy weapons will be removed voluntarily or, if necessary, by force," a senior U.S. official told Reuters. "From now on, we're going to be doing more enforcement." That will still leave untold numbers of small arms in the hands...
...than when attached to the U.S. hoop squad. The Dream Team (the N.B.A. 11 best players plus Duke's Christian Laettner) naturally gave opponents the DTs. It was a brutal, pointless spectacle, akin to the Harlem Globetrotters doing their sideshow humiliation, for fun and profit, of a flat-footed pickup team...