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Franklin hardly looks the part of the monster, as he sits not 20 feet from his daughter. When he was arrested, he looked like evil incarnate: barrel- chested and menacing, with his long hair brushed up into points. Since then he has lost 40 lbs.; he is now well-coiffed, and has donned steel-rimmed glasses...
...backup bands of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. Next the city fathers of Detroit; Skokie, Ill.; and St. Paul will succumb and proclaim the accordion their official designated hitter. These cities are unaware that it is the convergence of hundreds of accordion players pumping out The Beer Barrel Polka in unison that depletes the ozone layer. The Red Cross is looking into this...
President Saddam Hussein's quest to turn Iraq into the Middle East's military superpower continues. British customs officials at the northeastern port city of Middlesbrough seized eight Iraq-bound crates that contained what Defense Ministry experts say could be the barrel of the world's largest cannon, capable of firing conventional, nuclear and chemical shells...
Both Baghdad and the firm in Sheffield, England, that manufactured the steel casting claim it is part of a pipeline for an Iraqi petrochemical plant. But defense experts say the casting may be the cannon's barrel, which would be 131 ft. long with a 39-in. bore, weigh 140 tons and be capable of firing a 1-to-3- ton shell up to 900 miles -- within range of most Middle East capitals...
...money could be better spent on more practical goals, like fighting poverty and improving education. Some scientists, including many researchers in other branches of physics, fear that funding for the SSC will come out of their own budgets. Cynics have argued that the SSC is just another pork-barrel construction project, being foisted on the public by the powerful Texas congressional delegation and backed by a President from Texas...