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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Home: Sample went to four grade schools. One he left after a fight with a friend, which he now calls "stupid." One he left because the school had problems with fights, guns, knives, and gangs. One he left because of a feud with his math teacher. In sixth grade he transfered to a Roman Catholic school where on the first day the teacher gave the class a test on Roman numerals. Never having seen Roman numerals before, he scored a 57. Sample says with a grin that the teacher thought he was stupid and that she graded tests incorrectly...
...townies were spoiling for a fight," he says. He remembers bailing himself out that night with his $25 weekly allowance, and says the one effect the Pogo Riot has had on his life is that his arrest record delayed his being drafted into the Korean...
...billion plan that will give each shareholder a package of special dividends and stock valued at more than $50 a share. The next day British Press Baron Robert Maxwell, owner of the London Daily Mirror, called off a $44-a-share takeover bid. Jovanovich had made the fight a battle of personalities. He called Maxwell's offer "preposterous" and declared the Fleet Street habitue "entirely unfit" to run Harcourt...
...slowing; the CDC estimates that 75% of those who will get the disease during the next five years have already been infected. Those most at risk of infection are homosexual and bisexual men, intravenous drug users and their sexual partners. But with the gay community now well organized to fight AIDS, the rate of infection among homosexuals appears to be declining. The CDC's Jaffe does not want the public to decrease its vigilance, but he would like to mute the hysteria. AIDS, he says, "is a fairly discrete problem . . . Why it isn't getting out beyond the immediate sexual...
After a career of nearly 30 years as one of the nation's leading pediatric surgeons, Dr. C. Everett Koop was nearing retirement age in the mid-1970s when he decided that the fight against abortion was as important as the effort to save lives on the operating table. A devout evangelical Christian, Koop poured out his prolife passions in two books, five educational films and a nationwide lecture tour. His style of argument was anything but dispassionate: in one film segment, Koop looked over a sea of naked dolls symbolizing aborted fetuses, and proclaimed, "I am standing...