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...brutal standards of Campaign '94 this is tame stuff, but it marks a distinct change for Foley. In past years, he ran his races quietly and mildly, with ads that showed him standing in a wheatfield and talking about his homesteader roots, or walking the Capitol corridors with his beloved Belgian shepherd Alice, who used to go to work with him. He is, after all, a man who began his congressional career three decades ago by holding a reception for the man he defeated. Nethercutt, who had been blasting Foley for months, seemed genuinely surprised by the Democrat...
...Lakebergs' time of hard choices began just before Christmas. About 13 weeks into Reitha's pregnancy, the Wheatfield, Indiana, couple learned through an ultrasound test that she was carrying Siamese, or conjoined, twins. Such cases are rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...
...series of thunderheads rolled across the southern Oklahoma hill country. One storm cell appeared -- at least on conventional radar -- to be relatively benign. But not to Nexrad (for Next Generation Radar), a new detection system that is powerful enough to track a swarm of insects moving across a wheatfield 50 km (30 miles) away. The domed instrument peered into the swirling winds and raindrops inside the clouds and saw a tornado aborning. The Weather Service flashed an alert to the surrounding community. Two houses and $1 million worth of property were destroyed that night by the cyclone, but there were...
ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50). Nixon's helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating results...
...balloon voyage and, with a time of 51 hrs. 14 min., shaved more than a day off the old record. "A piece of cake," said Hageman. The only hitch in their speedy journey (up to 76 m.p.h.) was when the Dutch Viking touched down a little fast in a wheatfield twelve miles east of Amsterdam; Brink was thrown out of the gondola and slightly injured his hip. The $2 million trip's highlight? Evelien loved "sitting on the afterdeck at night and enjoying the constellation (while) the balloon turned continually...