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Millie expresses her annoyance with the limited breadth of roles offered to Black stage performers by saying, "I'll wear cotton dresses, but I'll be damned if I'll wear another bandana...
...describe the experience as "death survived." Susan Steade, 27, a San Jose writer, made two jumps in the summer of 1988. Says she: "Skydiving was a lot less scary." Lance Colvin, 30, a computer specialist in Santa Clara, Calif., is a veteran of 50 leaps. "You get sweaty palms, cotton mouth," he says. "But the jump is one of the most elating feelings. It's more emotional than physical." Successful jumpers invariably wear a glowing "postbungee grin" reflecting a mixture of ecstasy and relief...
...most intriguing mysteries are thought to lie. So U.S. physicists have embarked on a bold quest: the building of a colossal collider that will dwarf today's accelerators. Called the superconducting supercollider, it will have a tunnel that will circle for 87 km (54 miles) * under the cotton and cattle country surrounding Waxahachie, Texas. Expected to be completed around the year 2000, the SSC will cost $7 billion to $8 billion...
...plant, the wall around the plastic crucifix is peeling, the tin ceiling sagging, the floor ankle deep in tissue, scraps, foam and fluff. But for the steam rising from the ironing boards, the air does not move. In the front hang row upon row of crisp white cotton miniskirts bearing the tag CREATED WITH PRIDE...
...sure, the dollar signs are hard to miss in TV sports these days. One can see them in everything from Bo Jackson commercials for Nike footwear to the corporate logos attached to a growing number of major events (among the newest additions: the Mobil Cotton Bowl and the Federal Express Orange Bowl). "It used to be that sport was sport, and business was business," says Norman Chad, who writes about media for the sports daily the National. "Now sports is business. Something that was once sweet and in some ways idyllic now is in the mud with everything else...