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When he won the first time, Becker was a playful puppy with huge paws. Since then he has grown 2 in. in height, to 6 ft. 3 in., and a regimen of running has slimmed his legs and streamlined his carriage. "I have become an athlete," he says, resembling a basketball guard. "I'm not Dr. J, but I can dunk a basketball, just barely dunk it. Picking up a ball, any kind of ball, I always had a feeling for it. I knew how to handle it. I liked it." As Becker has grown physically, a part...
...first indication that something was amiss at MTV came, as it usually does in the TV world, from the A.C. Nielsen Co. At the height of its popularity in 1983 and '84 (when Michael Jackson's Thriller was a hit attraction), MTV's ratings hovered between 1% and 1.2% of its potential audience. By the fall of 1985, the ratings had sunk to .6%, and they have not improved much since. MTV executives dispute the numbers, claiming that Nielsen's sample underrepresents males between the ages of twelve and 24, an important segment of its audience...
...seven years since Mount St. Helens exploded in a spume of gas, ash and pumice, there have been 24 additional eruptions at the volatile peak in the Cascade Range. The last, a small explosive belch of magma that added 85 ft. to the height of the lava dome inside the crater, occurred eight months ago. As a result, the U.S. Forest Service, cautious guardian of the 110,000-acre Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, has decided to let the general public have a closer look at a postvolcanic environment. Since early May, some 100 climbers a day have been...
...really? Do you know a guy named Dave? I don't know his last name, but he lives in New York. He's got brown hair, and he's about average height...
...period was relatively calm, at least compared to the turmoil that would shake the University and the nation in the next decade. Yet, 1952 was the height of the McCarthy Era, and certainly politics must have played a role in the student population's embracement of Pogo. The Crimson already had a reputation for defying the establishment, as it was in the fourth year of publishing its "Academic Freedom Reports," which detailed stories of scholars around the country persecuted because of their political views...