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Never mind the furor over the murder of rap star Tupac Shakur and the recriminations that are sure to erupt over the civil trial of a certain ex-football player. The hottest topic in black America, bar none, is whether the CIA was responsible for introducing crack cocaine to the ghetto. This idea is, of course, a hardy perennial among conspiracy theorists, who blame every plague that afflicts the black community on racist government plots. But this time it is not so easy to write off the talk as paranoid mumbo jumbo for two reasons: it springs, for once, from...
Children are sensitive to the slightest hint of humiliation; they tend to be almost bizarrely shamed by anything in their parents' behavior that smacks of the unconventional. What's a kid to do, then, when his parents' entire lives constantly erupt in spectacles of global embarrassment...
Granted, Planet Hollywood is not your average hash house. As the stars step from their limos and navigate the red carpet, the crowds erupt in full frenzy. "I absolutely have to see Bruce Willis!" shouts Arthur Signoralli, 32, a mechanic. Marjorie Bates, 61, and her husband have driven 45 miles from Columbia, Tennessee, to celebrate their 38th wedding anniversary at the big opening--outside, not at the party inside. Her long-lens camera at the ready, the excited Bates says, "I want to see everybody! My husband wants to see Cindy Crawford...
...play of then-freshman goalie Tripp Tracy which stole the show. Tracy exhibited moves that made doctors cringe, but which made the Harvard fans erupt in joy, and his 30 saves were the biggest reason Harvard brought the 'Pot back to Cambridge...
...disklike base, he classifies as a colonial cnidarian, the phylum that includes jellyfish, sea anemones and sea pens. And Dickinsonia, which appears to have a clearly segmented body, Runnegar tentatively places in an ancestral group that later gave rise to roundworms and arthropods. The Cambrian explosion did not erupt out of the blue, argues Runnegar. "It's the continuation of a process that began long before...