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DIED. Maurice Podoloff, 95, Ukrainian-born lawyer and the first president of the National Basketball Association (1949-63) who despite his sketchy knowledge of the game helped to lay the foundation for the professional sport, notably by shifting it out of high school gymnasiums into spacious arenas and by negotiating the league's first TV contract ($3,000, in 1954); in New Haven, Conn...
...complaining she is not allowed to do anything. The weight of her new responsibilities is just beginning to sink in. "Last night I couldn't get my homework done," she laments with a toss of her blond curls. "I kept feeding him and feeding him. Whenever you lay him down, he wants to get picked up." In retrospect she admits: "Babies are a big step. I should have thought more about...
...report to the Geological Society of America's national convention in Orlando, he suggested that the Everglades are the mud-filled remains of an impact crater left by an asteroid that struck the earth 38 million years ago and punched a hole in the ancient seabed, which then lay under 600 ft. of water...
Defending the need for such liberalization, Deng coined the line that has become his thumbnail credo: "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." He also began suggesting that an individual's value in modernizing China lay less in his "redness," or Communist ardor, than in his "expertness," or technical skills. Though his own formal schooling ended early, Deng has repeatedly stressed that his vision for building a new China was bound inextricably to education and research...
...this terrible noise, not single shots but real explosions," said a Viennese man who jumped behind a counter. "Three or four meters to my left, three people had fallen to the ground. There was a small child, all bloodied, its mother, who was also wounded, and a man who lay bleeding and seemed dead. To my right, another man had fallen and did not budge anymore...