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...most women, catching the hey-baby bloodshot eye of a drunken sailor is about as pleasing as walking past a bevy of foul-tongued construction workers. Unfortunately, the women present at a Las Vegas naval gathering in September witnessed an even darker side of the military man on the make. In a memo issued last week, Navy Secretary H. Lawrence Garrett III implicated 70 officers in an investigation of sexual harassment at the now infamous Tailhook convention. Part of the shenanigans at this annual meeting of Navy and Marine aviators included lining up in the halls of the Hilton Hotel...
...driving. Called the E1, it is a four-seat car with a top speed of 120 km/h (75 m.p.h.) and a range of up to 250 km (155 miles). Not so swift, you say? But this car is a clean machine: it gives off no pollution that could foul the air in any way. The E1 runs on an electric motor powered by high-energy sodium-sulfur batteries. Although it takes electricity to charge the batteries, the power plants can be far from smoggy cities...
...little far, making Macbeth too much fun for its own good. (The conversion of the witches' cauldron to an electric blender is one of these times.) The comic direction of some of the more intense moments of the script--like when Banquo's assassins bumble around like idiots and foul up their assassination attempt in the spirit of Inspector Cluseau--all lessens their ultimate impact...
Overall strong staging, lighting, costuming and acting make this Macbeth one which truly succeeds in making all fair, foul, and all foul fair...
...while DNA typing has been widely used since the mid-1980s, defense lawyers often cried foul. The test, they argued, is not always done carefully, and the results tend to make jurors overlook other evidence. Now here was a respected research organization urging courts to ban DNA fingerprinting until the scientific basis for the technique could be established more firmly. What could be better...