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...such a wind wake that the Air Force is keeping each trio of planes 40,000 feet apart. That distance -- nearly seven miles -- stretches delivery time to 51 minutes. "It really slows up our ability to get troops on the ground," an Army officer says. Boeing, the plane's builder, is working with the Air Force and Army to figure out how to fly C-17's closer together without jeopardizing paratroopers...
...talk show, got slapped with the most dire content warning (TV-MA), lower national Nielsen ratings than a nonlive version of rival Saturday Night Live and a DD cup's worth of critical bile for his debut network effort. The show, which featured Stern abusing a female body builder and several guests who were hoping to win free cosmetic surgery, was called "the smelly underpants of late-night television" by the L.A. Times, "the dregs of the dregs" by the Washington Post and, probably most hurtful of all, considering Stern's huge fan base in Utah, "sheer torture to watch...
...throat specialist by training. The doctor who reportedly chopped Paula Jones' schnozz is a plastic surgeon who charges $9,000 a pop. That must be reassuring for Jones; in medical matters, as in so much of high-end commerce in this country, shameless overcharging is a great confidence builder. For the rest of us, it's reassuring to know that this procedure took place in New York rather than California, where Jones lives. If the surgery does happen to result in litigation, the medical-malpractice attorney who defends the surgeon would presumably not be William Ginsburg of Los Angeles. Seeing...
...blame -- he's trying to take the blame for not implementing the reforms quickly and effectively," says Gibney. Hashimoto will stay in office until the LDP appoints a successor. The leading candidate right now is Foreign Minister Keizo Obuchi, who's known as a consensus builder rather than a Teddy Roosevelt. "The LDP needs a consensus to govern," says Gibney. "The fact that Hashimoto had views of his own had stalled the reform process." Japan's markets initially plummeted on the election results, but the Nikkei closed up 1.68 percent after it became clear that Hashimoto was taking the fall...
...Brown Invitational served as a momentum-builder heading into the all-important ECAC Championships one week later. The Crimson had no problem taking that title over the 16-team field...