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Alicea's stunts pleased the crowd but not the judges, though. Before he started to unnerve Smith midway through the bout, Alicea had hit the deck once and taken quite a few punishing blows to the head and body...
...ller's inflatable also is his workshop, where he is finishing plans for a bubble aviary for a zoo, a bubble house for a neighbor (cost: about $6,000), and was working on a bubble to fit over the helicopter on the deck of the late Aristotle Onassis' yacht. He is also negotiating with Algeria about building an entire inflatable resort town. In fact, there is nothing that Müller would not consider enclosing in a bubble to improve the human condition. "Inflatables give you a sense of self-reliance," he says. "There are no walls...
Change is what is sorely needed in the Economics Department--changes in curriculum, in hiring practices and in the atmosphere of student faculty relations. And if change is not in the cards, someone had better find a new deck--before the sound of valuable professors voting with their feet against the department's practices becomes the sound of a stampede...
...periods recently when economic bulletins sounded like excerpts from an Ionesco notebook. Within a few days, the Wholesale Price Index drops a notch while consumer prices rise again. Unemployment hits a new high and the stock market rallies perversely. Assorted experts prescribe contradictory cures while Government officials shuffle a deck of options. How does a conscientious reporter or editor convey the meaning of it all? Not very well, in all too many cases...
...University forced Matthews to take a semester off before applying for re-admission, and he spent the time as a deck hand on a Lake Champlain ferry. "I had a great time," he says...