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Twenty minutes before Ms. Pfeiffer arrives a flock of four-foot tall girls from the Gymnastic Academy of Boston Team--each sporting cute black jumpsuits with the Team logo--appear from nowhere and begin to do somersaults and backflips on the cold, rough pavement...
...Korie's treatment, Milk becomes a combination of Elie Wiesel, Oscar Wilde and Moses. He likens America's treatment of gays to the Holocaust and, in an embarrassing coda, leads his rambunctious flock to the gates of sexual and political freedom without quite being able to enter himself. The truth is somewhat different: Milk was an engaging if slightly goofy pol whose defining moment to most San Franciscans was his televised illustration of how to obey the pooper-scooper law. While the Milk legend may not be justified, Korie does use it to create a narrative that pulls the listener...
...Microsoft can pull off something that they've never previously been able to accomplish--namely, an initial product release free of major bugs--then there is no question that users will flock to Windows 95. New users will especially take to the product, as it will arguably make Windows machines as easy to set up and use as Macintoshes, thus stealing the ease-of-use crown that Apple has held for over ten years...
...Respect," the Harvard Health Letter last July listed other preliminary trials in humans and animals. They involve the impact of DHEA on such disorders as lupus, skin cancer and diabetes. One of the experimenters, Dr. Raymond Daynes, a University of Utah pathologist, had some advice for consumers who might flock to health-food stores for DHEA supplements. "What is sold in health-food stores is garbage," he said, noting that these pills carry only enough DHEA to affect a "small mouse...
...Dialogue. A convert at the age of nine from the animist faith of the Igbo tribe, Arinze, now 62, enjoys robust health (he is an avid tennis player) and almost legendary status back home. During Nigeria's fratricidal 1967 civil war, he faced down government oppression and sustained his flock in a breakaway province...