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...early days as a judge in Etowah County when he defended his right to display a homemade rosewood plaque in his courtroom. That crusade helped him get elected as Alabama's chief justice in 2000, so it should have surprised no one when he wheeled the 5,280-lb. monument of the Commandments into the courthouse rotunda in a midnight ceremony and then forced a showdown by refusing to remove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thou Shalt Be Removed | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

...rice binges, clingy loincloths, a positively feudalistic promotion system--it's easy to see how sumo wrestling could get to be a grind. But when AKEBONO, the first foreign-born wrestler to achieve sumo's highest rank, retired from the ring in 2001, it was huge news. The 517-lb. Hawaiian, born Chad Rowan, brought glitter and cosmopolitanism to the ancient and solemn Japanese sport. Now Akebono, 34, is stunning the sumo world again with the announcement that he'll join Japan's brutal K-1 kickboxing league--a career move tantamount to Mikhail Baryshnikov's joining WWE SmackDown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Sumo Star Seeks New Kicks | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Freshman Jonathan Spiker lost a major decision 11-3 against Jeremy Hart of Penn State, knocking him to the sixth-place spot as well. Spiker was wrestling in the 165-lb. weight class, one above where the 157-pounder regularly wrestles...

Author: By Megha Parekh, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wrestling Duo Places First | 11/24/2003 | See Source »

Mild-mannered, polite and genial, Payne’s personality is a closer fit to an altar boy than a defensive end. The only giveaway to his true persona is his 6’3, 230-lb frame...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Story | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

Need a helping hand to lift heavy objects around the house or yard? The Power Assist Suit, developed by a professor at the Kanagawa Institute of Technology in Japan, is a computer-controlled system that uses air pressure to augment your strength. In tests, a 100-lb. woman wearing one was able to lift a 150-lb. man. As you bend your arms and legs to start lifting, sensors on the suit detect which muscles are being used and activate a battery-powered air pump, which in turn inflates a series of air bags on the suit. As the bags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coolest Inventions: Power Up | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

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