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Around the globe, millions have followed the story of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who was kidnapped at age 10 and held prisoner for eight years in a windowless basement near Vienna, Austria. They have clicked through snapshots of her dungeon posted on the Internet, speculated in chat rooms about why she had never been discovered, and marveled at her eloquence in her first television interview last week...
...Democrats ruled Texas at the time, so much so that Republicans, the joke went, met in a phone booth. Texas Comptroller Bob Bullock was the king of the corner table, the master of legislative budget matters. One night Bullock went on a roach-shooting rampage in the Quorum Club basement. By the next night, everyone had holstered their sidearms and recovered from their hangovers. And so it went night after night - until 1980 when Richards's family confronted her with her alcoholism and she went into rehab. One year later, Bullock went off, as he put it, to "drunk school...
...When I walked out of UHS, the line in the basement for medical records was literally out of the door,” said Tabak, who is also a Crimson editor...
...race into space, the Russians can claim bigger satellites and more powerful rockets. If the U.S. can retort that it has a big lead in scientific achievement, the man most responsible is James Van Allen, whose instruments, designed and largely constructed in his basement laboratory, brought back from space discoveries the Russians never made. But Van Allen never expected to find himself, at 44, a key figure in the cold war"s competition for prestige. He is and always has been, by inclination and intent, a 'pure" scientist ... He started being curious about cosmic rays back in the prewar days...
...never occurred to anybody in the basement of the Louvre that morning that Sheetal Mafatlal, 33, was one of India's biggest luxury dealmakers. Although Mafatlal could easily afford to scoop up gowns by the gross, she wasn't shopping for herself. She was on a fact-finding mission as a prelude to opening the first Valentino store in India, in partnership with Valentino Fashion Group SpA, in New Delhi's five-star Shangri-La hotel. Valentino is the first of several Western designers introduced into India by MLP (Mafatlal Luxury Private), the company Mafatlal heads...