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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What was the catch? Did he want someone to play a rapist, a child molester or a drooling maniac? No. Those would have been easy parts to fill. Wheeler wanted a rugged star to play a college track coach who happens to be gay. And despite all the gains made by homosexuals in the U.S. in recent years, playing the part of a gay is still considered by many to be a fast ride to oblivion...
...drought is actually three droughts, according to Donald Gilman, a long-range forecaster with the National Weather Service. There have been shortages of moisture in the Southeast for years and in the West for several seasons. The winter and spring rains failed to fill reservoirs around the Tennessee Valley. The winter snowpack in the Rockies has been as much as 60% below normal. "Then the drought began in the Missouri-Mississippi watershed all the way to the Gulf," said Gilman. That was caused by a split in the jet stream, which usually carries storms across California into the Midwest, sucking...
...training-camp workouts and at ringside on fight night, the cauliflower reunions fill in another piece of the picture. They are bittersweet delights. Few of the usual suspects favor Spinks. Jake LaMotta thinks Tyson "is gonna go down as one of the greatest fighters of all times, and he's gonna break all records, and he's gonna be around a long, long time, and he's gonna make over $100 million. I could be wrong, but that's my opinion." Billy Conn, the patron saint of overblown light-heavyweights, says, "I think Tyson will...
...does it cover long-term home care -- a gap that Claude Pepper, the 87- year-old champion of the elderly, tried to fill with his complementary bill. At $4.5 billion by 1990, the Pepper proposal appealed more to the heart than to reason. "This is a day for which I've waited and worked and I might say prayed for 50 years," Pepper declared in an impassioned plea to his colleagues on the day of the vote. "Think about the human values...
...Istanbul they jam the Topkapi Palace to gaze at the 400-room harem of the sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. In Cappadocia, the eerie area in Central...