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Dennis W. Arrow, lawyer for the Oklahoma Board of Education--defendant in the Supreme Court case-said the statute is not designed to prevent teachers from advocating gay rights, but to prevent such advocacy from coming to the attention of students...
...rule would ban the 30-ounce scorpion bowl as well as other local drinking traditions, including pitcher night at the Bow and Arrow and happy hours at Chi Chi's and Jonathan Swift...
...unique design makes the X-29A as skittish as a colt. "It's roughly like throwing an arrow backward," says Robert Roemer, head of the X-29A project for Grumman. "No human could handle the multitude of adjustments necessary to keep this bird in stable flight." So three computers do the work for the pilot, making 40 adjustments a second to the wings and canards to keep the plane from ripping apart. In effect, the pilot guides he plane by feeding directions into the computer. If all the computers were to fail, the X-29A would self destruct...
...McKinney should develop a finger blister, the U.S. also has Darrell Pace, 27, of Hamilton, Ohio, Olympic trials winner, seven times national champion and the Olympic gold medal winner in 1976. Last year Pace seemed to have tied McKinney for the world championship, only to see one of his arrows hit another arrow in the bull's-eye and glance off into the nine ring. To have McKinney and Pace side by side on the U.S. team is like sneaking two Boston Celtics disguised as college boys into the basketball competition...
...years: a spin in a sleek, shiny new car. More buyers are flocking to auto showrooms than at any time since 1979. Instead of fuel-sipping "econoboxes," people are choosing cars with pep and pizazz that put pleasure back into driving. Says Len Scarano, general manager of the Arrow Auto Mall in Little Falls, N.J.: "A few years ago, people wanted to know only two things: the price and the gas mileage. That's not so true any more." Buyers are enthusiastic about sports cars, moving into minivans and jumping into Jeeps. Even full-size sedans, once thought headed...