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After 92 days of testimony, 58 witnesses and more than 400 exhibits, prosecutors in the O.J. Simpson murder trial ended their not always tidy case with testimony from fbi expert Douglas Deedrick on hair and fiber evidence, which the prosecution maintains links Simpson to the murders of his ex-wife and her friend. Current--repeat, current--estimates of the length of the defense case: four to six weeks...
...structure will allow HSDN to support core services like maintenance of fiber optic facilities, and diagnostic and repair services, but other services will become optional and will be administered on a fee-for-service basis...
...people planted Victory gardens in 1943 in, among other places, a Portland, Oregon, zoo and a Chicago racetrack. Such mass gardening was supposed to help prevent juvenile delinquency, improve the national health and, in the process, "help beet the enemy." Ever since, Americans have found plenty of high moral fiber in their yard work. In the dirt you could cleanse your soul...
...quality of baseball make it possible to prove or measure Ruth's greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient" and "fast-twitch muscle fiber." A more direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage of watching the superstar in action from inches away. "Babe was just great," Hayworth explained. "It always amazed me that when he'd swing, you could hear...
Each side will contribute $200 million to a global joint venture in which programming and electronic information produced by News Corp. will be distributed to businesses and consumers in digital form through MCI's vast web of fiber-optic cable. But here too Murdoch may not have to ante up cash, just "content.'' Low risk but high potential profit for him-that's typical of the entire deal. If MCI eventually invests the full $2 billion, it will own 13.5% of News Corp. But the terms of the deal require MCI to vote its shares in the same proportion...