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...months James Ostrowski, left, had a modest enough dream -- the gubernatorial nomination of New York's Libertarian Party. But last month something came between the Buffalo lawyer and his visions of matching wits with (or being ignored by) Mario Cuomo: a 900-lb., microphone-wielding gorilla named Howard Stern, who announced he was going after the party's nod. "I think I have a chance to win," said Ostrowski on the eve of the convention, held at the semicapacious Italian-American Community Center in Albany. "I feel Stern is using the party for his own purposes. I don't think...
Moreover, the long-threatened NATO air strikes had hardly been models of military precision. In misty weather, embattled U.N. peacekeepers called for fighter-bombers to hit Serbian tanks that were firing into Gorazde. Two U.S. Air Force F-16s swept in and dropped three 500-lb. bombs on some tents. The following day, as shells continued to pound Gorazde, two Marine F/A-18s tried to drop four bombs on the Serbs. One bomb remained stuck in its rack; two hit the ground but failed to explode. The planes swooped down in the wake of the bomb that did blow...
...free weights and two Universal machines. Among his admirers: Jarmaine Maggit, 23, who is serving 14 months for battery. When Maggit arrived last May, he could bench only 135 lbs. Now he's up to 325 lbs., earning a spot on a wall chart listing members of the 300-lb. club of Barbarian Bench Beasts. Showing off his 16-in. biceps, Maggit says, "I feel really powerful...
...great beast seems to materialize out of the dusk -- a striped vision of might and mystery. Emerging from a thicket in southern India's Nagarahole National Park, the Bengal tigress is hungry and ready to begin another night's hunt. To nourish her 500-lb. body, she must kill a sambar deer, a boar or some other big animal every week of her adult life. Fortunately for her, Nature has given tigers the prowess to prey upon creatures far larger than the cats are. Her massive shoulders and forelimbs can grip and bring down a gaur, a wild, oxlike animal...
Lawmakers may be fighting over the best way to achieve health reform, but there is also plenty of argument over just what it is that President Clinton has proposed. Anyone who reads his 5-lb., 1,342-page Health Security Act may be surprised to see what...