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...Flint, Michigan
AIDS breeds panic and paranoia wherever it strikes. Those emotions, along with some legal legerdemain, have led Michigan prosecutors to charge a carrier of the AIDS antibody with assault with intent to murder. The weapon: saliva. Authorities said that Autoworker John C. Richards, 28, scuffled with four Flint, Mich., police officers when they arrested him for drunk driving on Dec. 6. The officers said that Richards became enraged, told them he had AIDS, warned that he was going to infect them and then spat at them. Richards was ordered last week to undergo psychiatric testing...
...grew up in Flint, Mich., quite well-off and bright to boot. He was out of the chute and headed for Harvard Law by the time they wed in 1966, just after she graduated from college with a vague notion of doing social work. Unpacking at Cambridge, they switched on a hand-me-down TV and discovered Julia Child, whose cooking show came to anchor their weeks...
Prehistoric man, a history of shaving relates, shaved with clams and animal teeth, or pieces of flint sharpened against harder stones. Because of the inconvenience of these razors, however, the practice of walking clean-shaven didn't really catch on until 356 B.C. when bronze razors were available, according to the text. In that year, Roman hero Scipio Africanus celebrated his victory over arch-rival Hannibal with a clean shave and from there on, progress has been steady in helping man's continuing battle against the beard: in the mid-1100s Arab engineers introduced the steel razor, the 17th-century...
...sober gray suits, button-down shirts and striped ties. He rarely smiles, but when he does, the grin spreads slowly, almost reluctantly, across his face. Says a friend: "He deals with everyone, from Senators to bank presidents, as if he's telling them fishing stories." Yet he can be flint hard. Told of a worker who had been laid off after having given 30 years to his company, Pickens snapped, "Given? Didn't he get paid...