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Oddsmakers favored Hot to Trot II, but Plain Disgusting and Fluttering Antenna were far from long shots. The competing cockroaches were entrants in Bug Bowl 1991, an event staged last week at Purdue University to promote understanding of one of the most reviled insects. Says Thomas Turpin, a research entomologist: "We build houses, they move in and feed on the stuff that falls from the table...
...contrary, Kim's sad case is only too common. Gambling researchers say that of the estimated 8 million compulsive gamblers in America, fully 1 million are teenagers. Unlike Kim, most live far from casinos, so they favor sports betting, card playing and lotteries. Once bitten by the gambling bug, many later move on to casinos and racetrack betting. "We have always seen compulsive gambling as a problem of older people," says Jean Falzon, executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling, based in New York City. "Now we are finding that adolescent compulsive gambling is far more pervasive than...
...offing: "At my age, I'm too old to turn out a flop." His confidence is justifiable. A lifelong dancer, choreographer and director, he retired to Hawaii in the '50s after making a million with a chain of successful dance studios on the mainland. But the show-biz bug was still with him. When he viewed a lackluster show at a Honolulu nightclub in 1958, he got the owner's consent to work his magic and turned it into a winning act. To give it that extra bounce, Cione had his dancers go topless. It shocked the island like nothing...
Most Overexposed Underachiever Bart Simpson, the caustic cartoon kid who starred in a hit prime-time series, got his bug-eyed mug on everything from T shirts to key chains. Bill Cosby, eat his shorts...
Nonetheless, federal prosecutors say they have new and more damaging recordings of Gotti conversations, once again from the Ravenite club building. The snooping devices were planted in an apartment above the club that was used for Mob business. Gotti, who can afford to hire the best electronic bug- detecting experts in the city, apparently considered the apartment secure. But this time, insists James Fox, FBI head in New York, the recordings are "crystal clear . . . Gotti won't be pleased when he hears them...