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...Growing up, I knew my father as a truck driver and professional boxer," Salvatore Gigante, 43, says outside the courtroom. "We don't know anything about this other stuff, but we're holding up through the lies." After lunch one day, Salvatore ordered a nice schnapps with his coffee to go. "This is the one joy I have right now, that I take a little zip of Sambuca with my coffee," he said...
Then, demonstrating a technique that any driver maneuvering into a tight parking spot would envy, Sojourner energetically swiveled its wheels back and forth and "crabbed" sideways into a position near Yogi. The next day, however, when the rover moved toward the rock to perform X-ray spectroscopy, says project scientist Justin Maki, "it got a little too enthusiastic." What really happened is that Sojourner's controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory failed to take into account a small outcropping at the base of the rock. Pushed ever so slightly upward, the rover gently bumped into the rock and began...
...graduation day to a full-fledged career, the directions and milestones are clearly marked. Forty-five miles north of home is the border patrol checkpoint, a lone reminder of the often tormented dividing line farther south. Slightly to the north, Interstate-5 turns from the coast inland, giving the driver a view of Disneyland's tallest attractions rather than the ocean's buoys. Along the way lie the ubiquitous fast-food restaurants, rest stops and mini-malls: reminders of a location in consumer America, more specifically southern California. The roads are well-paved and well-labeled, with frequent mileage signs...
...before they start. The best part of Louisiana's law requires serious premarital counseling. So many of us, under the sway of Mad-Love Disease, haven't got a clue about what we're entering into. A marriage license should be at least as hard to obtain as a driver's license. Requiring the marital equivalent of being able to parallel park might knock a little sense into heads more concerned with registering at Bloomingdale's than deciding whether the kids will be baptized...
...local Gamblers Anonymous chapter testify. Among those telling their stories: a former electrician who says he would start arguments with his wife "so I could just leave the house" to gamble; a convenience-store manager whose addiction led her to embezzle $18,000; and a parcel-service driver, Marge Alexander, whose compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune to the cost of its new pastime. In May a reporter from the Belleville News...