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...medical help if they refused to be sterilized. MEANWHILE Bella Figura An alternative beauty contest in Italy chose a new Miss Cicciona (Tubby) to signal resistance against her countrywomen's worship of svelte bodies. Maria Dore, 36, crushed rivals to win the contest after weighing in at 194 kg (427lbs). Afterward she revealed her weight-gaining secret: pizza with mushrooms...
...DIED. SIEGFRIED HANSEN, 90, electrical engineer who created space suits used in nasa missions; in Los Angeles. Unlike previous pressure suits, the 22.7-kg Mark I, first designed in 1955, enabled astronauts both to breathe and bend their arms a full 90 degrees, a design that inspired the space suits used today...
...tough adjustment, but in truth Ichiro has made few concessions. American fans, pitchers and general managers are the ones scrambling to adjust. Already his success has killed, once and for all, the long-held conceit that a small Japanese player (Ichiro is 1.75 m tall and weighs 72.6 kg) would be overwhelmed in the major leagues. In Japan, meanwhile, it has completely altered the landscape. A mere baseball star when he played there, Ichiro is now an omnipresent cultural icon...
...next five months, though, all manner of speculation, panic and pride will rain down on Giants centerfielder Hideki Matsui, 28, the free-agent slugger, two-time MVP and former batting champion who is called Godzilla "because I look so scary," he says. The 1.9 m, 95.3 kg Hideki bears the fortunate burden of playing for Japan's oldest, most successful team, an institution combining the prestige of the Yankees and the fan reverence accorded Notre Dame. The Giants always lead the league in attendance and give their stars a profile Ichiro could only have dreamed of when he played...
...taken from a scrapped Seat 127 and may have been intended for use in a terror attack. A second suspect, believed to be Iñigo Vallejo, escaped. The arrest of Maurtua led police to three ETA hideouts in an isolated mountainous area where the terrorists had hidden 131 kg of explosives along with detonators and fuses. ITALY Mugabe's Loophole Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe took advantage of a loophole in international law to travel to Rome despite an E.U. travel ban imposed in February because of the violence and fraud surrounding his re-election. But the Italian government...