Word: fullers
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These spherical, 60- and 70-atom carbon molecules are named after Buckminster Fuller, who popularized the geodesic dome they resemble. They've never been seen outside the lab -- until now. Geologists tracked down buckyballs in the wilds of Russia in an unusual, ancient, carbon-rich rock near the town of Shunga, close to the Finnish border...
...overhead" at the promoter's New York office, $100,000 in "consulting fees" for his wife, $2 million for him to acquire promotional rights to other fighters, as well as extravagant sums to cover travel expenses and personal security. The affidavit also says that Tyson attorney Vincent Fuller, who in 1985 successfully defended King against federal tax-evasion charges, recently accused the promoter of exploiting Tyson financially and hiring puppets to represent Tyson in financial matters. King, a wily and meddlesome motormouth who is as beloved in boxing as George Steinbrenner is in baseball, responded that the affidavit is filled...
...Thomas to the members of the raging rap group Public Enemy. Making a movie to satisfy all these constituencies would seem an impossible task. At various times since producer Marvin Worth sewed up the rights in 1968, novelists James Baldwin and David Bradley and playwrights David Mamet and Charles Fuller tried their hand at writing a screenplay. Actors Billy Dee Williams and Richard Pryor expressed interest in playing Malcolm, and Sidney Lumet and Norman Jewison considered directing. But nobody wanted to do the film more than...
...Counsel. "Fuller is an exceptionally fine attorney," says Robert Simels, a New York City lawyer who has represented many athletes. "But he was probably not the right choice to bring into Indianapolis. They certainly needed a strong local female counsel. A woman could have handled parts of the examination -- the questions about panty shields -- which are much more sensitive for a male attorney to be hitting a proposed rape victim with...
Simels spots defense blunders throughout the process, from jury selection to the refusal to call a key witness -- Tyson's bodyguard -- to Fuller's loud, agitated summation. "They should not have let Tyson testify at the grand jury," Simels argues. "Then they compounded it by allowing Mike to come up with a different story during the trial." Tyson appeared to be lying, and lying stupidly, fulfilling any juror's suspicions about the boxer's brutality. Notes Garrison: "You couldn't look at this delicate little thing and imagine her having Mike Tyson say, 'Hey, I want...