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...moved to Atlanta out of disgust (my parents soon followed) where I discovered National League baseball and terrible, but dedicated team called the Atlanta Braves. They prized speed, pitching and defense. And they were carefully cultivating a crop in incredible pitchers in Triple...
Cinema: New jock city: a recent crop of movies reduces the glory of sport to insipid, inspirational slapstick...
...more grotesque the deed, the greater the killer's appeal. In the panoply of murderers, Long Island landscaper Joel Rifkin, who goes on trial this month for the death of 17 young women, is just a garden-variety killer. The man- eating Dahmer is the pick of the crop. "People are getting very morbidly involved in violence, especially violent sexual behavior," says criminologist Robert Ressler, who says he first coined the term serial killer 20 years ago when he worked in the FBI's behavioral-research branch. Americans now wallow in the horror and gore and take a guilty delight...
...geological history has been lifted up and laid bare by faulting and erosion, most Javan deposits are buried under rice paddies. Since the subterranean layers of rock are not so easy to study, scientists have traditionally dated Javan hominids by determining the age of fossilized extinct mammals that crop up nearby. The two fossils cited in the new Science paper were originally dated that way. The "Mojokerto child," a juvenile skullcap found in 1936, was estimated to be about 1 million years old. And a crushed face and partial cranium from Sangiran were judged a bit younger...
Although I cannot speak for the entire battalion, and especially not the Navy as a whole, I can share my experienced with the Naval Reserve Officer Training Crop and my experiences as a student at this University. I visited the United States Naval Academy in June of 1990, and stayed there for a week. I attended classes with other participants in this program ate meals in King Hall with Academy midshipmen and slept in Bancroft Hall, the largest single dormitory in the country--4,400 students under one roof with miles of corridors...