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...read the piece, shuddered, then ran my eyes back over it, hoping to find a mention of cancer or some other dread affliction. No such luck. Fuentes was apparently referring to his age. I am 57 and feel happy and horny. Don't do this to me, Carlos. ORSON BEAN Venice, Calif...
Garoon is happy just to be broadcasting his sports opinions over the airwaves, but his sportscasting fantasy will become even sweeter this spring when WHRB plans to cover the Baseball Bean Pot. Then he will finally get to commentate on the sport that made him fall in love with radio. "The culmination for me will be the Bean Pot," Garoon says. "It's going to be really exciting...
...toes, but it's also busting the Pentagon's budget. Deputy Defense Secretary John Hamre told reporters Wednesday that the cost of managing the latest standoff with Iraq has been "well over $600 million." And that's above and beyond the $700 million in ordinary operating costs that congressional bean-counters budgeted for fiscal 1998. With seven months to go, the meter is running...
...similar process produced the even deadlier toxin of botulinum bacteria, but because oxygen kills these germs, they were grown in a fermenter infused with nitrogen. Botulism is a severe kind of food poisoning that causes paralysis and death. The Iraqis also used the castor-bean plant, widely grown in the country, to produce the poison ricin, which kills by altering the body's use of proteins and causing circulatory collapse and heart failure...
Alwaleed's success is partly explained by the blend of Saudi, Lebanese and American influences that have shaped his relatively short career. By his own reckoning, his investment savvy draws on a Bedouin's instinct for caution, a Levantine's flair for a bargain and a bean counter's fondness for the bottom line. "He has an extremely agile mind," says U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Wyche Fowler. "He is always two or three jumps ahead of you." Alwaleed can negotiate in Arabic, English and French...