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TEXAS. At Alice Johnson Junior High School in Channelview, outside Houston, two eighth-grade honor students, Shanna Harper and Amber Heath, were vying for a spot on this fall's freshman cheerleading squad. But Shanna didn't make it -- not least because, on the day before the contest deadline, her mother was arrested for trying to get someone to murder Amber's mother...
...Crimson couldn't play catchup. Suzanne Jones finished an impressive 28th, but her teammates were far behind. Amber Duncan was the second Harvard finisher, 97th overall. Alais Griffin finished 108th, while Jenny Schenk and Wendy Campbell rounded out the Harvard scoring, finishing 110th and 121st, respectively...
Crichton's sci-fi is convincingly detailed. He has the cloning process begin not with ground-up fossils (too much DNA deterioration) but with dinosaur blood sucked by mosquito-like insects caught and preserved in amber. As is traditional in such narrations, there is an arrogant technician, who in this case claims that the park's dinosaurs can't breed because all have been sterilized. And as usual there is a relentlessly cheerful p.r. man. He settles the question of what dinosaurs eat; one of the big carnivores eats him. Then things really go wrong. Dinosaurs, it develops, are much...
Executors of the King's estate have licensed the sale of a new Presley spray cologne that will retail at $19.50. No, it doesn't smell like a sweaty towel or a blue suede shoe; the scent is described as a "contemporary, masculine blend of woods, herbs and amber." Read: a good-ole-boy's Old Spice...
...hall's century-old Roman brick and terra cotta are suggested on the tower by a skin of brownish and amber brick in five shades, and the molding and cornice lines of Carnegie's beaux arts facade are continued across the front of Pelli's building. The high-rise is wrapped by thick metal bands at six-floor intervals corresponding to the older building's height...