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...Mysterious Two--originally titled Follow Me If You Dare--about an extraterrestrial couple.) But Bo and Peep's disciples were not all sheep. One group of discontented followers rejected the cult when a promised space visit never materialized. To stem the drop in membership, Bo and Peep instituted the boot-camp phase of their movement to prepare followers for the rigors of space. Family contacts were frowned upon--except for one time, Mother...
...years, but the Army has been slower to adapt. Now it is trying to make up for lost time. The two-week Mojave war game, which is testing an elaborate new command-and-control system and 72 new pieces of hardware, is the Army's biggest push yet to boot up, log on and march in the information revolution...
...keepers have been scrambling to reflect such developments. So in the '80s American Express and McDonald's were added to the Dow as the likes of Johns-Manville and Owens-Illinois vanished. The early '90s saw Disney and J.P. Morgan added, while Navistar and USX got the boot. With the latest changes, which take effect this week, the Dow has morphed further from its heavy-industry roots: Woolworth, Westinghouse Electric, Bethlehem Steel and Texaco are being replaced by Wal-Mart Stores, Travelers, Johnson & Johnson and Hewlett-Packard...
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT His Rotundity wasn't fit enough for tennis, so he became the first President to hit the links seriously. Unfortunately, Taft was besieged by critics who lambasted him for playing a rich man's sport (and he failed to drop any pounds to boot...
WITHDRAWN. RIDDICK BOWE, 29, from U.S. Marine Corps Reserve boot camp after 11 days. The ex-heavyweight champ's manager said Bowe missed his wife and five children, and "had become used to living a life of luxury...