Word: beaters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Weirdest food he ever made himself: At home, I like to do stuff with tofu substitutes. I made an egg-beater omelette with tofu bacon, tofu sausage and fat-free cheese for my mother on Mother's Day. She thought it was delightful...
...tempting to make excuses for violence. The mugger came from a broken home and was trying to lift himself out of poverty. The wife beater was himself abused as a child. The juvenile murderer was exposed to Motley Crue records and Terminator movies. But do environmental factors wholly account for the seven-year-old child who tortures frogs? The teenager who knifes a teacher? The employee who slaughters workmates with an AK-47? Can society's ills really be responsible for all the savagery that is sweeping America? Or could some people be predisposed to violence by their genes...
...words over police training and attitudes. Two white transit cops sprayed 21 shots at a man in a dispute they deemed dangerous -- only to find the man was a black plainclothes officer, Derwin Pannell. The white officers involved claim Pannell had his gun drawn (he was stopping a fare beater). He says his weapon was holstered and he was startled when his colleagues fired at him from point-blank range. Partially paralyzed, he is suing the city for $70 million...
What accounts for his amazing metamorphosis from also-ran to world-beater? Powell, 28, gives credit to a five-year scientific training plan devised by his coach, Randy Huntington, who goes by the nickname "Mr. Gizmo" and leaves almost no technique untried in his exhaustive approach to training. Among the elements of Powell's regime...
Then there's Dylan Tweney, a newcomer who doesn't storm in and take the crowd over, but lets his neurotic persona do the job; he writhes as he becomes a guilty wife-beater or a distraught lover. And then there's Marc Weidershein, a middle-aged man who stands square in front of the crowd, reading from his book, incanting the words like a priest in his congregation, which is squished about him on the floor...