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HOUSE REPUBLICANS Constitutional scholars? More like a gang of vice principals hell-bent on holding detention...
...could kill you--everyone, that is, but tobacco executives themselves! In 1996 they raised their nicotine-stained right hands before Congress and pleaded ignorance, a perjury charge Ken Starr could get his teeth into, if only he were not already representing these guys. When subpoenaed documents revealed an industry hell-bent on hooking kids, even tobacco's core congressional defenders blanched. Gingrich vowed he would be tougher than the President. The McCain bill, which raises the price of cigarettes to reduce teen smoking, sailed through the Senate Commerce Committee...
Just when you thought your new black-slab digital cell phone was safe from high-tech thieves hell-bent on calling Kuala Lumpur, a group of Silicon Valley cypherpunks have broken the proprietary encryption technology used in 80 million GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) phones nationwide, including Motorola MicroTAC, Ericsson GSM 900 and Siemens D1900 models...
...friends had always given him "the Talk." Sheldon Patinkin, artistic consultant of the famed Second City comedy troupe, where Farley got his start, says, "He seemed to be hell-bent. I told him, 'You're drinking yourself to death. You're destroying your brain cells, and pretty soon you'll find it hard to be funny.'" Says Patinkin: "He knew it, and he'd agree, but he couldn't stop." Equally concerned was Farley's mentor Dan Aykroyd, who worried about the young comedian's idolization of another self-destructive SNL comic, Aykroyd's friend John Belushi, who died...
...world felt "a computer would have very little chance of beating a top grand master." That myth faded quickly. Halfway through Game 1, faced with daunting circumstances--"an open position, my king is exposed, many weaknesses"--Kasparov undertook a blitzkrieg aimed at Deep Blue's king, the sort of hell-bent gambit that has devastated every pretender to his throne. "Any human being," he explains, "feels uncomfortable feeling his king under pressure...