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...truly refined theatergoer, its plot also involves an underwater improv comedy troupe, spelling whales and former heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Can You Spell Me, Darryl Loomis | 1/11/2002 | See Source »

Stone graduated in 1947, after taking time off to serve in the army. While an undergraduate, he was the captain of the heavyweight crew team that set a world record for 2000 meters...

Author: By M. ARI Behar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Corporation Chair Stone Steps Down | 1/4/2002 | See Source »

Considered laughable when challenging "the big ugly bear" Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship in 1964, Ali turned out to be as surprising as the troops who wore rags on their feet and followed George Washington to take down the British Empire and turn the world upside down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ali In History: An American Original | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

...only did he take the belt from Liston, he regained his championship by defeating George Foreman in Zaire despite an earlier 3 1/2-year absence from the ring. In Manila in 1975, he and the magnificently noble Joe Frazier fought the greatest heavyweight fight of all time, 14 rounds of explosive leather, pure will and muscle until Frazier's eyes swelled closed and he could not meet the bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ali In History: An American Original | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

Some biotechs, including LION Bioscience of Heidelberg, Germany; Gene Logic of Gaithersburg, Md.; and Compugen of Princeton, N.J., have been selling their expertise in bioinformatics to big drug companies. But they face heavyweight competition from the likes of Hitachi and IBM, hungry for a slice of a bioinformatics market that Frost & Sullivan predicts will grow fivefold, to $7 billion over the next five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crunching Digits for Drugs | 12/24/2001 | See Source »

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