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...issues raised by the digging of the Jonglei Canal are so complex that many environmentalists caution against any predictions. Not so British Biologist Stephen Cobb, who headed one Jonglei survey team. "It won't be the disaster as first suspected," he says. "On balance, it is going to make life better for a lot of people." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported byRobertC. Wurmstedt/Jonglei
...first period, it didn't take long to see which team was the Larry Holmes and which was the Tex Cobb...
...scar tissue, there is a common majesty, a simple valor-so basic, so appealing, so appalling. Probably every game or type of conflict has it, but the others are not stripped to the waist or the bone. "Kill the quarterback" is mostly a figure of speech. Randall ("Tex") Cobb, a plain-speaking heavyweight, says, "If you screw up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass, darling...
...Boom Boom") Mancini flattened him 19 sec. into the 14th round outside a casino in Las Vegas. In the background of a wirephoto showing Kim lying still, a striking number of the Caesars Palace spectators are balling their own fists. More than 50 years ago, Writer Irvin S. Cobb described the fight fan: "He is a soft-fleshed, hard-faced person who keeps his own pelt safe from the bruises, but whose eyes glisten and whose hackles lift at the prospect of seeing someone else whipped to a souffle...
Successful in 76% of his steals, Henderson is not a thinking man's thief. He has already passed Ty Cobb's 67-year-old record of getting caught 38 times. His weapons are instinct and power; his massive thighs and torso are the secret of his speed. Even his smooth features and swept-back hair seem aerodynamically designed. Says White Sox Coach Ron Schueler: "He's faster than Brock. He simply outruns the ball...