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...outlaw antihero: a roguish, check-bouncing ex-con (wrongly convicted) who lived in a trailer and was nearly as great a pain to the cops as to the crooks he nabbed. The cases and car chases were not anything special; Rockford's raffish sense of humor and ability to fast-talk his way out of any jam were. Garner's insouciance bursts off the screen like a Pontiac Firebird flying off a ramp...
...estimated 40 million people are HIV-positive, including a record 1 million in the U.S. In New York City, doctors were alarmed to discover a particularly powerful strain of HIV in a sexually active gay man. Resistant to all but one of the classes of anti-AIDS drugs, that fast-working virus appears to lead to full-blown AIDS in a matter of months...
...Percentage of U.S. college and graduate students attending for-profit schools, where enrollment is growing four times as fast as at traditional colleges...
...accident in China's frigid, northeastern industrial belt was well covered in the local and national media, as TV news aired dramatic footage. Officials moved fast and evacuated roughly 40,000 residents living near the plant. At midnight, 10 hours after the blasts, the vice party secretary of the plant, which is owned by New York Stock Exchange-listed PetroChina Co., announced that people shouldn't worry about the orange cloud. "The explosion," he said, "did not cause toxic air pollution...
...were really struggling on defense, we did not have the intensity or the energy that we had [earlier this season].” The defense came alive in the second half, holding the Aggies to 7-of-21 shooting while surrendering no second-chance or fast-break points. “[When] we got the field goal defense down, I think we were much more comfortable,” Sullivan said. On the offensive end, Harvard has been shooting the ball well this year—the Crimson has hit on 47 percent of its shot attempts to date...