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Roberts accepted the group's Pudding Pot award with a short speech that she had kept in her sock...
PISDURA, India: Villagers in Pisdura, a small town located 440 miles northeast of Bombay, had no idea the oval rocks they kept digging up in their fields might just hold an answer to what killed off the dinosaurs. But now scientists are flocking to the village to examine the rocks, which turn out to be a rare collection of more than 300 dinosaur eggs. Because the eggs, which date from the Cretaceous period, the time 65 million years ago when dinosaurs began dying off, scientists hope that they will help provide clues to what caused the extinction. Because many...
Finally, last year, his appeal to a higher court turned down, Taborsky was sent to a minimum-security facility, where for two months he was kept in shackles, clearing brush. Now scheduled for release in April, he has refused an offer of a pardon by Florida Governor Lawton Chiles. Accepting the offer, he says, would mean admitting he is guilty, and he is confident that he will eventually be vindicated. Despite his travails, he says, "I'm seeking justice and seeking the truth. I believe in the system of justice in the United States...
...fact, the pot may have been richer. Rumors have long circulated that Madalyn had stowed away millions of dollars in foreign bank accounts. Elder son Bill Murray guesses "tens of millions." He says that as long ago as 1978, Madalyn kept multiple secret accounts around the world, at least one of which contained hundreds of thousands of dollars (declared funds from estates in 1995 came to a relatively paltry $340,000). Withers, the Murray-O'Hairs' legal inquisitor, supports the hidden-money theory, volunteering that a Murray-O'Hair phone log that he had access to featured numbers of Swiss...
...freakiest mysteries in the history of celebrity stalking may have been solved. Back in 1986, DAN RATHER told of an attack by a man who kept asking, "Kenneth, what's the frequency?" Some doubted it. Others thought his stalker was a KGB agent. Still others, notably the band R.E.M., which had a hit with What's the Frequency, Kenneth?, saw the incident as a cry of alienation. The New York Daily News, working on a tip from a psychiatrist, suggested that the assailant was William Tager, a disturbed man who believed the media were beaming messages...