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Palazzi, at times, had the dice loaded. On fourth and one with the Minutemen up, 31-21, Palazzi ran the option. Harvard defensive back Jim Smith had Palazzi nailed way behind the line of scrimmage. Somehow, the UMass quarterback managed to flick the ball to Smellie who ran for the touchdown...
Nature's editors were duly skeptical. The magazine had printed, with disclaimers, some dubious reports in the past. In 1974, for example, Nature published a paper that claimed Psychic Uri Geller, since discredited by Randi, could predict dice throws a million times as accurately as chance would predict...
Some cities have added oral exams and simulation exercises. In Corpus Christi, Texas, contenders for the job of police chief had to face interrogation by real reporters at a mock news conference. For many of those cramming for such challenges, major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
Steve Blad was born in Iowa but raised from childhood in Hollywood, Fla., by "old-fashioned, God-fearin', all-American parents," he says. "I was the first member of my family to get divorced, to drink whiskey and to roll dice." He grins his lopsided grin. "You might say, I like to color outside the lines...
DESCRIPTION: Number of delegates won by Michael Dukakis, Jesse Jackson, Albert Gore Jr., Paul Simon, Richard Gephardt and others; gives odds of election of each and short assessment of each candidate's campaign; faces of candidates are shown in black and white illustration mounted on dice...