Word: duking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.--The best start to a season in Duke history was never in jeopardy last night as the top-ranked Blue Devils overwhelmed undermanned Virginia 100-54 for their 19th straight victory...
...Blue Devils (24-1, 12-0 Atlantic Coast Conference), led by 19 at halftime and extended their lead throughout the second half. Duke is bidding to become the first team in league history to go through the 16-game schedule unbeaten...
...rhythm, a sound track. The years and the sounds bleed together as we scan through them in our recollections, a car radio searching for a clear station. The century starts off blue: Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Then the jazz age: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and, later on, Benny Goodman and "Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees." Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder. It might be better...
...Aspartame triggers headaches. Wrong again, says Susan Shiffman, a medical psychologist at Duke University who conducted a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of 40 "aspartame sensitive" people. A little probing often revealed the real trouble. One woman, who often ate peanuts with her diet soda, was allergic to peanuts. Another drank too much caffeine...
...soap As The World Turns. In 1993 she was cast as a difficult teen in Sister Act 2. There's a scene in that film in which Hill's character reels off a rap as her classmates look on. "None of that was scripted," says director Bill Duke. "That was all Lauryn. She was amazing." While in high school, she formed the rap trio the Fugees (short for refugees) with classmate Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel and Wyclef Jean, who went to a nearby school. The group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, sold poorly. Hill spent about a year at Columbia...