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...Excoriate, in headline-speak 48. Site of 50th-anniversary observance of the Korean War's first casualties 50. The Supreme Court struck down its law banning partial-birth abortions 53. The 9-Down has met with Fujimori to push for reforms here 54. Dreaded '60s draft status 55. Reuther's org. 56. Give walking papers to 57. The American Heart Association has agreed to support __-cell research 58. Org. that Bush wants to split...
...alarm. Updates on the target's path will pour into the U.S. Space Command's outpost at Cheyenne Mountain, Colo. Computers there will assemble a "weapons task plan" based on the incoming weapon's trajectory and any decoys trying to fool the U.S. interceptor. Within minutes, the first draft of this electronic map will be zapped nearly 6,000 miles to Kwajalein and into the interceptor's electronic brain...
...publisher, grimly: "They want to take back Nauvoo, and since they can't do it with guns, they are doing it with money." If so, in the first of what would no doubt be many social changes, Nauvoo would probably go dry. E-mails Sonja Bush: "I own the Draft House in Nauvoo, and was informed tonight that the city planner (Mormon) referred to it as 'a place of sin.' Boy! You should have seen it. Wednesday is 'Chicken Nite' and a lot of our sinners were in their 60s to mid-80s. They were kicking up their heels...
...draft has traditionally been a sartorial Chernobyl, Jalen Rose's scarlet suit in 1994 being a retina-burning example. This year, though, most draftees displayed impressive understatement. Reason: many contracted with custom suit designers, thus top pick Kenyon Martin's more sedate look...
...smoking," says the son, conscious of his father's death at 59) and grew up in the San Francisco suburb of Millbrae. In high school he swam competitively but didn't study. After graduating--barely--he moved down to Newport Beach to surf. But he had smarts. As a draft-eligible nonstudent, he says, he got the highest score of 35,000 recruits on a Navy intelligence test. Trained as a hospital corpsman, he saw North Vietnam's devastating Tet offensive in 1968. Says his wife Claire Fraser, a prominent molecular biologist: "Vietnam changed him. It impressed...