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Traficant is known for outrageous oratory--he used his favorite phrase, "Beam me up," 30 different times in one session of Congress. And it hasn't mattered to his constituents, who like his strong stand against NAFTA and tax increases and have returned him to Washington six times by a wide margin. He has no G.O.P. challenger...
They made their serendipitous discovery by zapping graphite with a laser beam and mixing the resulting carbon vapor with a stream of helium. When they examined the crystallized residue, they found molecules made of 60 carbon atoms. Guessing (correctly) that these structures resembled Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, they named them "buckminsterfullerenes"--"buckyballs" for short...
...Strug's injury--a severe ankle sprain--she was forced to withdraw from the individual competition two nights later. Moceanu took her place, joining Miller and Dominique Dawes as America's three entrants. Performing separately, they seemed more fragile, both physically and emotionally. Moceanu wobbled on the balance beam and was never in contention. Dawes and Miller, two stoic 19-year-olds, each made a major flub on the floor exercise and walked off sobbing, aware that their medal chances had vanished. That allowed the elfin Ukrainian Lilia Podkopayeva, the reigning world champion, to edge past three tough Romanians...
Replay it once more. A close second to the Russians after the compulsories, the U.S. women's gymnasts had moved into first during Tuesday night's finals on the strength of six nearly flawless performances on the uneven parallel bars and another six strong ones on the balance beam. They held their own on the floor exercise, and with one event remaining, the vault, the first U.S. team gymnastics gold medal ever was all but assured, barring disaster...
Every few minutes or so, Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats all comers in the 10-m dash. Grant Hill seems willing to go one-on-one with hundreds of wannabes. Shannon Miller never loses her balance on the beam even though she walks the walk...