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...start in 1965 when she mortgaged her house to purchase a local Louisiana restaurant called Chris Steak House, advertised in a newspaper classified ad by then owner Chris Matulich. DIED. THOR HEYERDAHL, 87, Norwegian explorer whose transoceanic expeditions on primitive rafts earned him worldwide acclaim; in Colla Micheri, Italy. Kon-Tiki, Heyerdahl's 1948 account of his 7,000-km Pacific voyage on a balsa wood raft, was translated into 66 languages, and his contribution to theories of intercontinental migration remains influential today. ARRESTED. ROBERT BLAKE, 68, former child actor and star of television's Baretta...
...north of Tokyo, was once an electronics boomtown, home to an Aiwa compact-disc factory and six other manufacturers. In January, loss-making Aiwa shut down the plant - and all of its factories in Japan. "People working there, at first, said, oh, this won't affect us," says Genkichi Kon, who operated a snack shop inside the plant. "But gradually, one by one, people were restructured [translation: fired]." Two other factories have also closed. "People in our town are spending their savings for their everyday life," says Yahaba mayor, Mitsuro Kawamura, echoing a trend the government reported in January...
...talk to these women all you want about the human-rights side of it, or the danger to the girls. But it's the threat of being arrested that has an effect," says Drissa Koné, a 29-year-old community health worker in northern Ivory Coast. "Let one woman in this region be arrested for performing excisions, and watch how fast they stop doing...
Dolly Shoemaker-Levy 9 25 million transistor 1 billion Colossus 20 ENIAC quasar 71 Olduvai Gorge 16 million 6701 Valium penicillin 500 billion Bakelite RU-486 Lascaux 41.22 cyclotron 14 Deep Blue 10.5 million 550 Kon-Tiki amniocentesis...
...Norwegian ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl sails from Peru to Polynesia on the wooden raft Kon-Tiki to support his theory that pre-Incan peoples reached South Pacific islands by sea and colonized them...