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During her 23-year marriage, Margaret Randolph could have qualified as a poster woman for spousal abuse. Her husband Gary Randolph, a sometime dock worker, would get drunk and then "bring out his guns," Margaret says. He would shoot up the house as their three children, now ages 22, 15 and 13, dived for cover under the beds. According to Margaret, one night Gary shot her in the arm with a pistol. Afraid to report the incident to the police, she packed up the children a few months later and moved from their St. Louis home to Chatsworth, Georgia...
...deal with an even higher authority: his Stars & Stripes found a mysterious breeze that allowed it to make up a seemingly insurmountable 4-min., 42-boat-length lead on the final leg to overtake Mighty Mary. No wonder that each morning, as Conner's boat leaves the dock, loudspeakers blast the team's anthem: the Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive...
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...June comes the grand finale of Thagard's mission: for the first time ever, a U.S. shuttle will dock with Mir, picking up the astronaut and his two Russian colleagues and making them the first people to leave earth on one country's rocket and return home on the craft of another. The docking and six similar missions planned for the next two years are just warm-ups for the space industry's version of the Super Bowl. Between 1997 and 2002, the Russians and the Americans, with help from the European Space Agency, Canada and Japan, intend to build...
...addition to the sub-Eliot bakery, Harvard's underground world also harbors a dry dock, changing rooms and a laundromat. The tunnels also connect five kitchens, spanning from Leverett to Kirkland. Electric trams are needed to transport carts of food from one dining hall to another. After all, Leverett and Kirkland are pretty far apart when you're carrying chicken curry in a hurry...