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...first game of basketball was played on December 21, 1891, and December has proved to be THE month of upsets in college basketball. On December 23, 1982, the biggest upset in college basketball history occured when Chaminade, a small Hawaiian school of 900 students, defeated then top-ranked Virginia...
January's unexpected I percent rise in the Producer Price Index for finished goods was the biggest monthly increase since an identical surge in October 1985, and the Labor Department said it was equivalent to a 12.7 percent annual rate of inflation...
...biggest surprise for Yale this season has been freshman Ed Petersen, who leads the team in scoring (15.8 p.p.g.) and assists (3.8 a.p.g.). The 6-ft. guard has been ranked among the NCAA leaders in foul shouting all season long...
...biggest losers of all in the swimsuit issue arena are women. Beach pictorials are about the most exposure women get in any single issue of magazines such as Sports Illustrated. The imbalance suggests that women are most newsworthy when they are passive sex symbols. This is a warped idea in an age when the United States' brightest Olympic star was not a man, but sprinter Florence Griffith-Joyner...
...biggest obstacle could be the psychological barrier to living away from the sun and sky. Critics see the potential for mass claustrophobia. For that reason, planners foresee few underground housing projects, at least initially. The idea is to move offices and stores beneath the surface to free up the land above for residential building. People would become vertical commuters, going down a huge elevator shaft to work...