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...first all-star jam held, the hall had no actual residence. In May 1986 the Hall of Fame board, after considering such sites as New York City and Memphis, Tennessee, decided to locate in Cleveland. Ostensibly, the city was selected because it's the place where local deejay Alan Freed popularized the term rock 'n' roll in the early 1950s; perhaps more important, local leaders, eager for a tourist attraction, raised $65 million in public funds to help build the hall. "It wasn't Alan Freed. It was $65 million," says Cleveland Plain Dealer music critic Michael Norman. "Cleveland wanted...
...climate transformed Africa's moist forests into drier grasslands, evolution favored hom inids that could stand upright in order to spot predators lurking in the tall grasses. Other researchers argue that an upright posture lessened the heat the animals absorbed from the fierce tropical sun. Still others believe bipedalism freed the hands for carrying food or children over long distances. Such explanations appear to share a common flaw. A growing body of evidence strongly suggests that the earliest hominids did not, in fact, move out onto the savanna. The fossils they left behind were found in areas that were once...
Thanks to an Italian law passed in 1993 that prevents people with AIDS from being thrown in jail, a group of HIV-infected bank robbers in Turin were freed after their fourth holdup in three weeks. The three men, described by police as heroin addicts with full-blown AIDS, have carried out dozens of heists. Said a police spokesman: "They know they can't be imprisoned, so they take no precautions...They robbed the last bank in full view of the security cameras, armed only with a pocket knife...
...tells you the rest of a containment strategy: 1) a new security relationship with democratic India, now freed from its odd, cold war alliance with the Soviets; 2) renewing the U.S.- Japan alliance, now threatened by a U.S. Administration so hell-bent on selling carburetors in Kyoto that it is blithely jeopardizing the keystone of our Pacific security; and 3) cozying up to the Russians, who, however ornery elsewhere, have a common interest in boxing in China...
...white flag." Milosevic said that he had sent his chief of state security to Pale, the Bosnian Serb stronghold, to tell Radovan Karadzic, the Bosnian Serb leader, and General Ratko Mladic, his military commander, that they would be arrested-and worse-if every one of the hostages was not freed, healthy and rearmed. As the day wore on with little news of progress in Pale, Milosevic fretted about Karadzic's word "meaning nothing." Said he: "I would not pay five cents for their promises before they are fulfilled." He told Frasure that food, drink and medical supplies had been sent...