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...first heads to Princeton where it meets a Tiger team trailing the Crimson by only two points in the standings and eager to cement its own playoff positioning...
...using excessive force against King and cleared another officer of all but one charge, Los Angeles exploded in riots that left 54 people dead, 2,000 injured and more than 800 buildings burned. During the riots, another videotape was made, this time from a police helicopter, showing a cement truck driver named Reginald Denny, a white man, being dragged from his cab by young blacks, who kicked him and smashed him in the head with a brick until he lay near death. Now each side had evidence to validate its stereotypic myths...
...marked his 19th birthday behind bars. He had little to celebrate. He's on death row at Louisiana State Prison at Angola, a former plantation turned high-security prison that was made infamous by the movie Dead Man Walking. Cousin's cell is small and stark, with cement floors, a metal sleeping bunk and a squat, steel toilet. He is locked in his cell 23 hours a day, with a one-hour break to exercise or use the telephone. Meals are pushed through a slot in the door: breakfast at 5:30 a.m., lunch at 10:30 a.m., dinner...
...around for millenniums. Archaeologists have found evidence of head lice in the hair of ancient Egyptian mummies. And each year, 10 million to 12 million Americans receive unsolicited calls from the sesame seed-size insects, which set up shop in human scalps and lay eggs, or nits, that they cement to hair shafts. Head lice do not carry disease, but they are tenacious and a rather nasty sight. In the past few decades, the problem had been controlled with shampoos or soaps, many of them containing permethrin, the most widely used of the lice-killing chemicals called synthetic pyrethroids...
...this era of permanent campaigns, might seem premature for a Vice President, except that it has become the organizing principle of Clinton's status quo second term. Clinton's legacy is now predicated on electing Gore ("It's going to take another presidential election to set these ideas in cement," Clinton has told friends), which is why Gore's electability has become an issue so early in the game...