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...bottle and ran upstairs to tell three visitors who had a special stake in the Hubble results: the people who had discovered the comet. Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker are a husband-and-wife scientific duo who spend their evenings scanning the skies for heavenly intruders; David Levy, an amateur astronomer, often helps them. When the partners found Shoemaker-Levy 9 in 1993, they knew it was unusual, and further observation revealed that it was not one comet but at least 21 fragments, remnants of a single object that had been torn apart a year earlier by Jupiter's gravity...
...case began this week in Memphis, and many suspect it may reach the U.S. Supreme Court. Why? It's the first serious test of whether obscenity laws based on community standards still make sense when pornography flows through cyberspace. If convicted, Robert and Carleen Thomas, who run the Amateur Action Bulletin Board System from Milpitas, Calif., face 50 years in prison. BTW: It's no surprise the charges arose in Memphis, Net watchers note. Prosecutors there made headlines in the 1970s when they went after the cast and producers of the first real mainstream X-rated movie, "Deep Throat," which...
...times blasted Clinton's weak performance abroad. On Haiti, for example: "We don't know what the policy is, but we know what kind of underwear ((Clinton)) wears." Cracks like that one can't endear him to the President. But Hamilton "would bring some professionalism to the amateur hour around here," says a State Department official. "If we'd changed our refugee policy on Lee's watch, you can bet there would have been some interim way of dealing with the Haitian boat people before we got the new procedures in place. We wouldn't be turning people back...
...have the scars they claimed to have received from ritual burnings and knifings. There was no physical evidence of any kind. Further, the stories told separately by the sisters did not agree. As the membership of the supposed satanic cult began to take on the size of an amateur theatrical troupe and as the other Ingram family members began to sound doubtful about their confessions, charges against Ingram's two male friends were dropped and the investigation collapsed. Its premise, Wright reflects, "was that something must have happened. At no time did the detectives ever consider the possibility that...
...Milwaukee County supervisors that they voted 13 to 10 last month to ban weight lifting in the county's 1,400-inmate prison, a move they hope will ignite a nationwide campaign against the cult of prison body-building. Says Roger Quindel, a sponsor of the ban and an amateur weight lifter: "Allowing these guys to bulk up in prison is so stupid! Do we really want stronger criminals? I'd rather buy them computers and then let them do calisthenics...