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...seven teams Dallas has beaten, only one (Philadelphia) has a winning record. Its losses are even more telling, with the Cowboys falling to Atlanta (2-7) and Tampa Bay (4-5). Dallas was shut out, 16-0, in the loss against the Bucs on Oct. 16, its first real challenge this season...
...Brooklyn-reared Jew, Frank was the manager of an Atlanta pencil factory where a female employee, 13, was raped and strangled to death in 1913. On shaky evidence and over his vehement denials, he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Two years later, after his sentence had been commuted to life imprisonment, a gang abducted him from prison and lynched...
...Serling introducing a Twilight Zone episode. Picture, if you will, a broken-down beach town on a quietly nonspecific stretch of the East Coast. The town was once dominated by Cosey's Hotel and Resort, a swanky getaway with "more handsome single men per square foot than anyplace outside Atlanta." But Cosey's is now a Gothic ruin, and Bill Cosey, its handsome, charismatic playa-patriarch, is long dead...
From the timber harvests of North America and Scandinavia, the giants of the industry--led by International Paper of Stamford, Conn. (2002 total sales: $25 billion); Georgia-Pacific of Atlanta ($23.3 billion); Weyerhaeuser of Tacoma, Wash. ($18.5 billion); Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA of Stockholm ($10 billion); and Smurfit-Stone Container of Chicago ($8.2 billion)--churn out millions of tons of linerboard and corrugated. A box can be small enough to hold a wedding ring or large enough for jet skis (4 ft. by 4 ft. by 4 ft. is the maximum, however). The U.S. leads the world in box manufacturing...
...every team has a shot, every year. Who would have thought Carolina, Minnesota and Kansas City would be undefeated going into week seven? Last year, Atlanta surprised. Two years ago, New England came out of nowhere. Every team, except the Bengals and Cardinals, has a legitimate shot to win the Super Bowl every year...