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...catch the commotion. "Look, just because I have a little money to gamble with doesn't mean I can afford any more energy taxes or income taxes or any damn taxes," said Doug Smith Jr., 46, whose thick and callused hands testify to his part-time job as a carpet installer. "Enough!" Heads nodded up and down along the wooden table, one of 40 set up in the brightly lit but smoky meeting hall where about 300 mostly working- class gamblers were quietly plotting for a piece of the $3,500 pot. "I voted for Clinton because I figured...
...home, a converted garage behind the house where he grew up. So well concealed that police posted on the property did not suspect it was there, the room could be reached only by using a block and tackle to lift a 200-lb. concrete trapdoor hidden beneath a carpet. Then it was necessary to climb down a 7-ft. ladder to a narrow passage that led to the mini-dungeon. Though it had only a camp toilet, the room was equipped with ventilation and a closed-circuit TV that enabled Esposito to keep an eye on his living quarters upstairs...
...then there was the Marine Band, "The President's Own," as it is called. When Reagan once again trod the red ceremonial carpet, Colonel John Bourgeois, the band director, struck up The Ronald Reagan March. Reagan caught it and with eyes bright, straightened and gave the colonel a salute for everything that had been. Reagan and Bush walked one last time side by side in the majesty of power they created and now were ending. Then they moved off into memory...
Roll out the red carpet and get ready for the made-for-TV movie: Science magazine has created a new celebrity by naming nitric oxide its Molecule of the Year for 1992. The citation notes that only a decade ago NO was considered "just another toxic molecule." But how far it's come! Scientists now know that in small amounts NO is crucial to human physiology. It plays a key role in digestion, blood-pressure regulation, the immune system, the nervous system and a long list of organs. It's even essential for men's erections. Maybe that TV movie...
...film uses the cutting edge technology of Computer Generated Imagery (which was responsible for the three-dimensional ballroom in Beauty and the Beast) to create the incredible tiger's head exterior of the Cave of Wonders, the interior tunnels of the cave and Aladdin's first magic carpet ride, reminiscent of the cave sequence in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Aladdin's animation is the sum of knowledge accumulated from past efforts like Sleeping Beauty--for example, Jafar's transformation into a overpowering serpent in Aladdin far surpasses the visual impact of the witch's metamorphosis into a towering dragon...