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Mike Tyson's alleged "serial buttocks fondling." If the charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...
Mike Tyson's alleged "serial buttocks fondling." If the charges are correct, this walking keg of testosterone was doing at an Indianapolis beauty pageant what he does in the ring: mauling the competition. Tyson's troubles spotlighted the threat behind many an athlete's swagger: he may think the world is his for the taking, with one swift punch or pinch...
...resignation speech last week, Gorbachev conceded that he had not been a complete success. He was convinced that the reforms he began in 1985 were "historically correct." But, he added, "there were mistakes made that could have been avoided, and many of the things that we did could have been done better." His severe gaze and impenetrable self-assurance hardly wavered as he refused to admit that he and his office had become irrelevant. He could not even bring himself to say he was resigning; he had decided, he said, to "discontinue my activities" out of "considerations of principle...
...Standards and Technology, "we might improve the global positioning system enough to land airplanes in pea-soup fog." Even now it is not difficult to imagine that STMs might be employed by the semiconductor industry to produce minuscule electronic devices, that optical tweezers might be used by surgeons to correct defects in a single cell or that femtosecond lasers might eventually be harnessed to control, as well as monitor, chemical reactions. Speculates University of Chicago chemical physicist Steven Sibener: "In the future, combinations of these magic wands may become much more powerful than using them...
...didn't misinterpret his wife at all. That's the way she was. Garrison's investigation threatened her family life. They had five kids, and he was not home. We didn't practice politically correct feminism to try to make her into something she was not. What we did -- you could fault me for it -- was put a woman D.A. into his staff. He did not have a woman...